anticoagulant
pronunciation
How to pronounce anticoagulant in British English:
UK [ˌæntikəʊˈægjələnt]
How to pronounce anticoagulant in American English:
US [ˌæntikoʊˈægjələnt]
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- Noun:
- medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of blood
Word Origin
- anticoagulant
- 1905, adjective and noun, from anti- + coagulant.
Example
- 1. The reduced anticoagulant effect of fondaparinux at low antithrombin levels .
- 2. You may also be given an additional medication called an anticoagulant .
- 3. As they do so , their salivary glands secrete hirudin , an anticoagulant so effective that the pharmaceutical industry synthesises it as a blood-thinning agent .
- 4. It is also possible that some blood types are not as easily thinned by the anticoagulant in the mosquito 's saliva , so the mosquito has to make more tries to get a satisfying meal .
- 5. The increasing need for anticoagulant therapy to prevent stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation .