anticoagulant meaning

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anticoagulant (noun): medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of blood.

Definition of anticoagulant

  1. medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of blood

    Synonyms: anticoagulant medication, decoagulant

    Type of: medicine

    Kinds: dicumarol, heparin, warfarin

Scrabble score: 16 (letter breakdown)

Word lists: words starting with AN · words ending in NT · 13-letter words

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