anticoagulant

From anti- +‎ coagulant.

anticoagulant (plural anticoagulants)

1. (medicine) A substance that prevents coagulation (stops blood from clotting); especially, any of a group of pharmaceutical drugs that reduce the clotting speed or affinity of the blood by any of several mechanisms (e.g., inhibiting platelet function, inhibiting clotting factor (protein) production or function, increasing antithrombin function).

   Synonym: blood thinner (informal)

   Antonyms: coagulant; styptic

   Hyponyms: (against platelet function) aspirin, clopidogrel; (against clotting factors) VKA, warfarin, dicoumarol, acenocoumarol, DOAC, NOAC, apixaban, dabigatran, rivaroxaban, edoxaban, betrixaban; (helping antithrombin) heparin, dalteparin, enoxaparin

   • 2015 July 29, Carville G. Bevans et al., “Phylogeny of the Vitamin K 2,3-Epoxide Reductase (VKOR) Family and Evolutionary Relationship to the Disulfide Bond Formation Protein B (DsbB) Family”, in Nutrients‎^[1], volume 7, →DOI:

     In the case of pathological hypercoagulative conditions such as thrombosis and embolism, 4-hydroxycoumarin based oral anticoagulants, including warfarin as a well-known example, are administered to block the enzymatic function of VKORC1, effectively diminishing turnover of the vitamin K cycle.

• anticoagulant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

anticoagulant (comparative more anticoagulant, superlative most anticoagulant)

1. That prevents coagulation, that stops blood from clotting.

   Antonyms: coagulant; styptic

   • 2012, Y. Grosgogeat, “Cerebral Ischemic Accidents of Cardiac Origin”, in Jacques Bories, editor, Cerebral Ischaemia: A Neuroradiological Study (Neuroradiology; volume 27, number 6), Berlin: Springer-Verlag, →DOI, →ISBN, page 130:

     The posologies employed require careful clinical and electrical supervision, and the same anticoagulant measures as for electrical cardioversion are necessary.

From anti- +‎ coagulant.

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.ti.kɔ.a.ɡy.lɑ̃/

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anticoagulant (feminine anticoagulante, masculine plural anticoagulants, feminine plural anticoagulantes)

1. (medicine) anticoagulant, anticoagulating (that prevents coagulation, that stops blood from clotting)

anticoagulant m (plural anticoagulants)

1. (medicine) anticoagulant (substance that prevents coagulation, that stops blood from clotting)

• “anticoagulant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French anticoagulant.

anticoagulant m (plural anticoagulante)

1. anticoagulant