Blood Clots. Blood clotting, or coagulation, is an important process that prevents excessive bleeding when a blood vessel is injured. Platelets (a type of blood cell) and proteins in your plasma (the liquid part of blood) work together to stop the bleeding by forming a clot over the injury. Typically, your body will naturally dissolve the blood clot after the injury has healed.
Medical Definition of PATHOPHYSIOLOGY. : the physiology of abnormal states; specifically: the functional changes that accompany a particular syndrome or disease. â pathoÂ·physÂ·iÂ·oÂ·logÂ·iÂ·cal \-Ä-É-Ëlaej-ËlÃ¤j-i\ kÉl orÂ·pathoÂ·physÂ·iÂ·oÂ·log \-ic\ ik. â adjectiveÂ·pathoÂ·physÂ·iÂ·olÂ·o \-gist-Ä-Ëael-ËÃ¤l\ É. jÉst noun
Definitions for Cardiac Electrophysiology. Cardiac electrophysiology. Cardiac electrophysiology is the science of elucidating, diagnosing, and treating the electrical activities of the heart. The term is usually used to describe studies of such phenomena by invasive catheter recording of spontaneous activity as well as of cardiac responses to programmed electrical stimulation.