clotting factor

noun

1. Also called: coagulation factor. any one of a group of substances, including factor VIII, the presence of which in the blood is essential for blood clotting to occur

clotting factor

1. Any of various components of plasma involved in the coagulation of blood, including fibrinogen, prothrombin, and calcium ions. Hereditary deficiency of clotting factors can cause coagulation disorders such as hemophilia.

Example Sentences

The findings, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed nine out of 10 patients given the therapy no longer needed their clotting factor IX injections.

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Donated plasma is most commonly used to treat patients with clotting factor disorders such as hemophilia and von Willebrand disease.

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Dr. Iwasaki’s team showed in December that severely ill patients had dramatic increases in a wide array of autoantibodies that target parts of the immune system, brain cells, connective tissue and clotting factors.

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Their hope was that it would be enough to stabilize the clotting factor and prevent it from binding to the body’s own VWF.

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Those include COVID-19—because severe cases feature a storm of immune cells, clotting factors, and other inflammatory signals in the blood.

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