FIBRINOLYSIS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A normal ongoing process that dissolves fibrin and results in the removal of small blood clots

Example:

drugs causing fibrinolysis have been utilized therapeutically

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("fibrinolysis" is a kind of...):

disintegration; dissolution (separation into component parts)

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