anticoagulant medication
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1. medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of blood (noun.artifact)
| hyponym | : | dicoumarol, dicumarol, |
| definition | : | an anticoagulant drug that has now been largely replaced by warfarin (noun.artifact) |
| hyponym | : | heparin, lipo-hepin, liquaemin, |
| definition | : | a polysaccharide produced in basophils (especially in the lung and liver) and that inhibits the activity of thrombin in coagulation of the blood; it (trade names Lipo-Hepin and Liquaemin) is used as an anticoagulant in the treatment of thrombosis and in heart surgery (noun.artifact) |
| hyponym | : | coumadin, warfarin, |
| definition | : | an anticoagulant (trade name Coumadin) use to prevent and treat a thrombus or embolus (noun.artifact) |
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