(MOLE RATIO) Mole ratio: a ratio between the number of moles of any two substances in a chemical reaction. Atoms and molecules are incredibly small and impossible to count. We use moles to compare the quantity of reactants to products.
Thrombophlebitis is an inflammation of a vein, usually in your legs, that becomes swollen due to a blood clot. A blood clot is a solid formation of blood cells that stick together. Blood clots can interfere with the normal flow of blood throughout your body.
(redirected from suppurative phlebitis) Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Medical, Wikipedia. Related to suppurative phlebitis: septic phlebitis. (flÉbÄ«`tÄ­s), inflammation of a vein. Phlebitis is almost always accompanied by a blood clot, or thrombus, in the affected vein, a condition known as thrombophlebitis (see thrombosisthrombosis. , obstruction of an artery or vein by a blood clot (thrombus).