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"roman": "Außerdem neigen die Blutplättchen von depressiven Menschen eher dazu, sich zu Gerinnseln zusammenzuballen. Diese können irgendwann wichtige Adern verstopfen und einen Gau im Herzen oder Hirn auslösen.",
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}
],
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"German informal terms",
"German terms with quotations",
"Requests for translations of German quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"roman": "Außerdem neigen die Blutplättchen von depressiven Menschen eher dazu, sich zu Gerinnseln zusammenzuballen. Diese können irgendwann wichtige Adern verstopfen und einen Gau im Herzen oder Hirn auslösen.",
"text": "Roland Kopp-Wichmann, Depression ist für das Herz genauso schädlich wie Rauchen",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"an accident, a calamity"
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal) an accident, a calamity"
],
"tags": [
"informal",
"masculine",
"strong"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ɡaʊ̯/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-aʊ̯"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Gau",
"de:Gau"
],
"word": "Gau"
}
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