Crossword clues for coumadin
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Coumadin
by 1953, name for human anti-coagulant use of the rat poison warfarin sodium, abstracted from the chemical name, 3-(α-acetonylbenzyl)-4-hydroxycoumarin; earlier known as Dicoumarol, it attained publicity when it was used in 1955 to treat U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower after a heart attack. The coumarin element (1830) is from French coumarine, from coumarou, the native name in Guyana of the tonquin bean, one source of the substance.
Usage examples of "coumadin".
Apparently they’d been given arsenic, Coumadin and some other rare chemical that strikes at the musculature.
Apparently they'd been given arsenic, Coumadin and some other rare chemical that strikes at the musculature.