anticoagulants

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1. Substances that slow down or prevent blood clotting.

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Example Sentences

Consider anticoagulants, medications that prevent blood from clotting.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From BBC

"But refining the risks of brain clots and bleeds from anticoagulants and using this information to make the best treatment choice could improve treatment safety for people with heart disease."

From Science Daily

To prevent these complications in people with known AFib, clinicians often prescribe anticoagulants -- drugs that prevent blood clots -- as well as other lifestyle and medical therapies.

From Science Daily

A: We know that mosquito saliva has some factors in it, anticoagulants and things like that, that may or may not improve the infectivity.

From Science Magazine