Plural of coagulum; plural form of blood clots or other coagulated substances.
From Latin coagulum (curdled milk, clot), from coagulare (to curdle). This is the direct Latin plural form.
In medieval medicine, physicians tried to understand coagula by studying curdled milk—they were actually onto something, since both involve proteins changing structure permanently.
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