anticoagulant

[an-tee-koh-ag-yuh-luhnt, an-tahy-]

adjective

1. Also anticoagulative preventing coagulation, especially of blood.

noun

1. an anticoagulant agent, as heparin.

anticoagulant

/ ˌæntɪkəʊˈæɡjʊlənt /

adjective

1. acting to prevent or impair coagulation, esp of blood

noun

1. an agent that prevents or impairs coagulation

anticoagulant

1. A substance that prevents the clotting of blood.

Word History and Origins

Origin of anticoagulant¹

First recorded in 1900–05; anti- + coagulant

Example Sentences

The researchers were able to dissolve them by altering sodium chloride levels in the presence of heparin, a naturally occurring anticoagulant.

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The anticoagulant drugs and cardiac ablation procedures for treating atrial fibrillation aren’t without complication, so large studies are trying to determine if the additional arrhythmias found by devices like Zio are truly stroke threats.

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Consider anticoagulants, medications that prevent blood from clotting.

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Which is why slower-acting substances, mainly anticoagulants - drugs that stop blood forming into clots - are used.

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The animals were tested by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Wildlife Health Lab and found the animals had anticoagulant rodenticide diphacinone in the stomach and liver, according to a statement from the agency.

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