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ANTICOAGULANT MEDICATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of blood
Synonyms:
anticoagulant; anticoagulant medication; decoagulant
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("anticoagulant medication" is a kind of...):
medicament; medication; medicinal drug; medicine ((medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "anticoagulant medication"):
dicoumarol; dicumarol (an anticoagulant drug that has now been largely replaced by warfarin)
heparin; Lipo-Hepin; Liquaemin (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)
Coumadin; warfarin (an anticoagulant (trade name Coumadin) use to prevent and treat a thrombus or embolus)
