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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

COAGULATION

n.The act of changing from a fluid to a fixed state; concretion; the state of being coagulated; the body formed by coagulating.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

COAGULATION

Co *ag `u *la "tion, n. Etym: [L. coagulatio.]

1. The change from a liquid to a thickened, curdlike, insoluble state, not by evaporation, but by some kind of chemical reaction; as, the spontaneous coagulation of freshly drawn blood; the coagulation of milk by rennet, or acid, and the coagulation of egg albumin by heat. Coagulation is generally the change of an albuminous body into an insoluble modification.

2. The substance or body formed by coagulation.

French Dictionary

coagulation

coagulation n. f. nom féminin Action de devenir moins liquide. : La coagulation du sang.