What is the definition or description of: disseminated intravascular coagulation?

Coagulopathy: Disseminated intravascular coagulation: acquired blood disorder, usually triggered by a host of conditions, such as sepsis and cancer, that lead to an unrestrained activation of clotting factors. Blood clots will form and with subsequent exhaustion of clotting proteins, bleeding ensues with possible death.

DIC: This is a condition where the body's normal blood clotting and thinning mechanisms are disrupted and small blood clots form in the small vessels. These numerous clots cause consumption of the body's clotting factors and then bleeding occurs. Infection is the most common stimulus for this process.