cold ischemia time definition
clotting time (coagulation time) the time required for blood to clot in a glass tube; see also clotting. cold ischemia time the time between the placement of a traumatically amputated body part in ice and the time of surgical replantation. inertia time the time required to overcome the inertia of a muscle after reception of a stimulus. ischemia time the total time between traumatic amputation of a limb or portion of a limb and its surgical reimplantation; it is the sum of warm and cold ischemia times. minimal response time in radiology, the shortest possible exposure time for an x-ray film to be exposed automatically.