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A clot formed within the blood circulation and attached at its site of formation. A detached fragment carried elsewhere becomes an embolus, distinguishing origin from subsequent transport.
A state in which the coagulation system is more prone to generate clots. It is one contributor to thrombosis, alongside disturbances in flow and vascular surfaces.
An inherited or acquired predisposition to thrombosis. A predisposition changes risk without implying that a clot is currently present or that every affected person will develop one.
Reduction of blood-coagulation activity through interference with clotting mechanisms. It can limit formation or extension of thrombi; the body’s later removal of a clot is a different process from the drug’s immediate action.
Breakdown of a thrombus, including treatment that promotes enzymatic degradation of its fibrin structure. It differs from anticoagulation, which primarily limits further clot formation rather than directly dissolving an existing clot.
Material carried in the blood circulation that can lodge and obstruct a vessel; a detached portion of a thrombus is one example.
The oesophageal hiatus is the opening through the respiratory diaphragm for the oesophagus and accompanying structures. Muscular relations around it contribute to the mechanics of the gastroesophageal junction. It is separate from the posterior aortic hiatus.
Chemical breakdown caused by heating, usually with little or no external oxygen supplied.
An exception presented with architectural state corresponding to a program-order boundary: older instructions have taken effect and younger ones have not. Private results in a reorder buffer can be discarded to recover this state.
Adjective referring to the sympathetic nervous system.
A sympathetic trunk is a chain of interconnected sympathetic ganglia beside the vertebral column. Connections allow preganglionic input and postganglionic output to be distributed across levels. The chain is therefore not simply one uninterrupted nerve fiber.
Pinned article: Introduction to the OurBigBook Project
Welcome to the OurBigBook Project! Our goal is to create the perfect publishing platform for STEM subjects, and get university-level students to write the best free STEM tutorials ever.
Everyone is welcome to create an account and play with the site: ourbigbook.com/go/register. We belive that students themselves can write amazing tutorials, but teachers are welcome too. You can write about anything you want, it doesn't have to be STEM or even educational. Silly test content is very welcome and you won't be penalized in any way. Just keep it legal!
Intro to OurBigBook
. Source. We have two killer features:
- topics: topics group articles by different users with the same title, e.g. here is the topic for the "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus" ourbigbook.com/go/topic/fundamental-theorem-of-calculusArticles of different users are sorted by upvote within each article page. This feature is a bit like:
- a Wikipedia where each user can have their own version of each article
- a Q&A website like Stack Overflow, where multiple people can give their views on a given topic, and the best ones are sorted by upvote. Except you don't need to wait for someone to ask first, and any topic goes, no matter how narrow or broad
This feature makes it possible for readers to find better explanations of any topic created by other writers. And it allows writers to create an explanation in a place that readers might actually find it.
Figure 1. Screenshot of the "Derivative" topic page. View it live at: ourbigbook.com/go/topic/derivativeVideo 2. OurBigBook Web topics demo. Source. - local editing: you can store all your personal knowledge base content locally in a plaintext markup format that can be edited locally and published either:This way you can be sure that even if OurBigBook.com were to go down one day (which we have no plans to do as it is quite cheap to host!), your content will still be perfectly readable as a static site.
- to OurBigBook.com to get awesome multi-user features like topics and likes
- as HTML files to a static website, which you can host yourself for free on many external providers like GitHub Pages, and remain in full control
Figure 2. You can publish local OurBigBook lightweight markup files to either OurBigBook.com or as a static website.
Figure 3. Visual Studio Code extension installation.
Figure 5. . You can also edit articles on the Web editor without installing anything locally. Video 3. Edit locally and publish demo. Source. This shows editing OurBigBook Markup and publishing it using the Visual Studio Code extension. 
- Infinitely deep tables of contents:
All our software is open source and hosted at: github.com/ourbigbook/ourbigbook
Further documentation can be found at: docs.ourbigbook.com
Feel free to reach our to us for any help or suggestions: docs.ourbigbook.com/#contact