defibrinate
Americanverb (used with object)
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Van Helsing, turning to me, said, "He is so young and strong, and of blood so pure that we need not defibrinate it."
From Dracula by Bram Stoker
Although naturalists have only recently discovered that vampires can be kept alive with defibrinated blood.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the second place, that print was evidently made with the aid of certain appliances and materials, and one of those materials, namely defibrinated blood, was found in the safe.
From The Red Thumb Mark by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman
It is known as "defibrinated" blood.13.Certain substances, called opsonins, have recently been shown to exist in the plasma, that aid the white corpuscles in their work of destroying germs.
From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Francis M. Walters
This is "whipped" or defibrinated blood, which has lost the power of coagulating spontaneously.
From A Practical Physiology by Albert F. Blaisdell
Place in each of three test tubes two or three teaspoonfuls of defibrinated blood, obtained from Experiment 89, labeled A, B, and C. A is for comparison.
From A Practical Physiology by Albert F. Blaisdell
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