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Drug hindering blood clotting
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anticoagulant
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1905, adjective and noun, from anti- + coagulant .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Anticoagulants are a class of drugs that work to prevent blood coagulation (clotting). Such substances occur naturally in leeches and blood-sucking insects. A group of pharmaceuticals called anticoagulants can be used as an injection as a medication for ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Acting as an anticoagulant. n. (context medicine English) A substance that prevents coagulation; that is, it stops blood from clotting.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of blood [syn: anticoagulant medication , decoagulant ]
Usage examples of anticoagulant.
There were sacks of the distinctive yellow blodfrey that boiled up into the anticoagulant tea.
Over the past few years, rodents in this country have been building up a resistance against anticoagulants.
The anticoagulant needed to be given over a half hour of time, a long time for someone fighting for their breath as Mrs Jeeves was going to fight for hers.
Its anticoagulant saliva causes the itching and burning and, of course, scratching.
There we added anticoagulant heparin, and the blood then went to the liver of the animal.
Leeches injected an anticoagulant into the blood, and Tyson knew it would be hours before the holes clotted.
Garreth crossed his fingers, hoping the tech would not ask why he was so interested in anticoagulants.
There were on many worlds bloodsucking creatures which released anticoagulants that allowed blood to flow painlessly and unbeknownst to the host animal.
To pull them loose would leave a wound into which the leech had injected anticoagulants and which would continue to bleed profusely and probably become infected.
Deirdre was beginning to suck gently on my arm, the extra glands beneath her tongue secreting anticoagulants to counteract my own blood's accelerated clotting factor.
In other areas, such as the development of fangs and anticoagulants in your saliva, you don't appear to have even begun the processes.
Like most humans on Wunderland she had anticoagulants added to her blood and it dried quickly.
The blood corpuscles had been clumped and removed by one compound plus the filter, and the anticoagulant had neatly modified most of the others.
Unthinned by anticoagulant, it set almost instantly as it met the air, in an ugly, unsculpted knot that grasped the scimitar’s metal like solder.