| NOUN | artifact | anticoagulant medication, anticoagulant, decoagulant | medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of blood |
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| Meaning | medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of blood. | |
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| Synonyms | anticoagulant, decoagulant | |
| Narrower | dicumarol, dicoumarol | 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 | |
| warfarin, Coumadin | An anticoagulant (trade name Coumadin) use to prevent and treat a thrombus or embolus | |
| Broader | medicine, medication, medicament, medicinal drug | (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease |
| Spanish | anticoagulante, decoagulant, medicamento anticoagulante | |
| Catalan | anticoagulant, decoagulant | |
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