Blood clots in the veins of the legs are frequently called phlebitis or thrombophlebitis. This is a potentially dangerous condition that may affect any vein in the body but is most frequent in the lower extremity veins. Blood clots in the legs are frequent problems occurring in about 2 million extremities each year in the USA.
thicket definition: The definition of a thicket is a dense area of bushes and small trees. (noun) An area in the woods that is overgrown with bushes and trees is an example of a thicket....
thicket-a dense growth of bushes. brush, coppice, copse, brushwood. botany, flora, vegetation-all the plant life in a particular region or period; Pleistocene vegetation; the flora of southern California; the botany of China. dense growth of shrubs or underbrush; a copse. 2. Something suggestive of a dense growth of plants, as in impenetrability or thickness: the thicket of unreality which stands between us and the facts of life (Daniel J. Boorstin).