medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of blood
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Anticoagulant medication
medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of blood
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an anticoagulant (trade name Coumadin) use to prevent and treat a thrombus or embolus
Used in the same subject area: Cardiology, Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology, General medicine.medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of blood
Used in the same subject area: Cardiology, Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology, General medicine.an anticoagulant drug that has now been largely replaced by warfarin
Used in the same subject area: Cardiology, Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology, General medicine.an anticoagulant drug that has now been largely replaced by warfarin
Used in the same subject area: Cardiology, Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology, General medicine.a polysaccharide produced in basophils (especially in the lung and liver) and that inhibits the activity of thrombin in coagulation of…
Used in the same subject area: Cardiology, Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology, General medicine.a polysaccharide produced in basophils (especially in the lung and liver) and that inhibits the activity of thrombin in coagulation of…
Used in the same subject area: Cardiology, Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology, General medicine.a polysaccharide produced in basophils (especially in the lung and liver) and that inhibits the activity of thrombin in coagulation of…
Used in the same subject area: Cardiology, Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology, General medicine.an anticoagulant (trade name Coumadin) use to prevent and treat a thrombus or embolus
Used in the same subject area: Cardiology, Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology, General medicine.(medicine) a reason that makes it inadvisable to prescribe a particular drug or employ a particular procedure or treatment
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology, General medicine.(medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology, General medicine.(medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology, General medicine.(medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology, General medicine.(medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology, General medicine.(pharmacology) a medicine consisting of an extract in an alcohol solution
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology, General medicine.a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology, General medicine.an abnormal rate of muscle contractions in the heart
Used in the same subject area: Cardiology, Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.an abnormal rate of muscle contractions in the heart
Used in the same subject area: Cardiology, Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.
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Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicine, prevents, retards, clotting, blood.a blood test used to identify unknown antigens; blood with the unknown antigen is mixed with a known antibody and whether or not agglu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicine, prevents, retards, clotting, blood.A medicine which opposes the action of another medicine or of a poison when absorbed into the blood or tissues.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicine, prevents, retards, clotting, blood.(chemistry) a substance that retards a chemical reaction or diminishes the activity of a catalyst
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicine, prevents, retards, clotting, blood.a drug that prevents or alleviates nausea and vomiting
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicine, prevents, retards, clotting, blood.any of the group of common autoantibodies present in blood.; "The presence an antiphospholipid antibody in blood, such as the lupus an…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicine, prevents, retards, clotting, blood.A substance which prevents or retards putrefaction, or destroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, salt, carbolic acid, al…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicine, prevents, retards, clotting, blood.A medicine which prevents or allays spasms or convulsions.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicine, prevents, retards, clotting, blood.To emit blood; to lose blood; to run with blood, by whatever means; as, the arm bleeds; the wound bled freely; to bleed at the nose.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicine, prevents, retards, clotting, blood.the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets; "blood ca…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicine, prevents, retards, clotting, blood.tiny bits of protoplasm found in vertebrate blood; essential for blood clotting
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicine, prevents, retards, clotting, blood.the pressure of the circulating blood against the walls of the blood vessels; results from the systole of the left ventricle of the he…
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