anticoagulant

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ coagulant.

Noun

anticoagulant (plural anticoagulants)

1. (medicine) A substance that prevents coagulation (stops blood from clotting); especially, any of a group of pharmaceutical drugs that reduce the clotting speed or affinity of the blood by any of several mechanisms (e.g., inhibiting platelet function, inhibiting clotting factor (protein) production or function, increasing antithrombin function).

   Synonym: blood thinner (informal)

   Antonyms: coagulant; styptic

   Hyponyms: (against platelet function) aspirin, clopidogrel; (against clotting factors) VKA, warfarin, dicoumarol, acenocoumarol, DOAC, NOAC, apixaban, dabigatran, rivaroxaban, edoxaban, betrixaban; (helping antithrombin) heparin, dalteparin, enoxaparin

   • 2015 July 29, Carville G. Bevans et al., “Phylogeny of the Vitamin K 2,3-Epoxide Reductase (VKOR) Family and Evolutionary Relationship to the Disulfide Bond Formation Protein B (DsbB) Family”, in Nutrients‎^[1], volume 7, →DOI:

     In the case of pathological hypercoagulative conditions such as thrombosis and embolism, 4-hydroxycoumarin based oral anticoagulants, including warfarin as a well-known example, are administered to block the enzymatic function of VKORC1, effectively diminishing turnover of the vitamin K cycle.

Derived terms

• anticoagulantly
• nonanticoagulant

 

Translations

substance

• Armenian: հակամակարդիչ (hy) (hakamakardičʻ)
• Catalan: anticoagulant (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 抗凝劑／抗凝剂 (zh) (kàngníngjì)

• Czech: antikoagulant m, antikoagulancium n
• Dutch: antistollingsmiddel (nl) n
• Finnish: antikoagulantti (fi), verenohentaja
• French: anticoagulant (fr) m
• Greek: αντιπηκτικό (el) n (antipiktikó)
• Irish: antaithéachtach m
• Italian: anticoagulante (it) m
• Kazakh: қансұйылтпа (qansūiyltpa), антикоагулянт (antikoagulänt)
• Portuguese: anticoagulante (pt) m
• Russian: антикоагуля́нт (ru) m (antikoaguljánt)
• Slovak: antikoagulant
• Spanish: anticoagulante (es) m
• Ukrainian: антикоагуля́нт m (antykoahuljánt)

See also

• -arol
• -grel
• -parin

 

Further reading

• anticoagulant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Adjective

anticoagulant (comparative more anticoagulant, superlative most anticoagulant)

1. That prevents coagulation, that stops blood from clotting.

   Antonyms: coagulant; styptic

   • 2012, Y. Grosgogeat, “Cerebral Ischemic Accidents of Cardiac Origin”, in Jacques Bories, editor, Cerebral Ischaemia: A Neuroradiological Study (Neuroradiology; volume 27, number 6), Berlin: Springer-Verlag, →DOI, →ISBN, page 130:

     The posologies employed require careful clinical and electrical supervision, and the same anticoagulant measures as for electrical cardioversion are necessary.

Translations

acting as an anticoagulant

• Catalan: anticoagulant (ca)
• Czech: antikoagulační
• Finnish: verta ohentava, veren hyytymistä estävä
• French: anticoagulant (fr)
• Greek: αντιπηκτικός (el) (antipiktikós)
• Polish: przeciwzakrzepowy (pl)
• Slovak: antikoagulačný
• Spanish: anticoagulante (es)

French

Etymology

From anti- +‎ coagulant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.ti.kɔ.a.ɡy.lɑ̃/

• Audio:

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Adjective

anticoagulant (feminine anticoagulante, masculine plural anticoagulants, feminine plural anticoagulantes)

1. (medicine) anticoagulant, anticoagulating (that prevents coagulation, that stops blood from clotting)

Noun

anticoagulant m (plural anticoagulants)

1. (medicine) anticoagulant (substance that prevents coagulation, that stops blood from clotting)

Further reading

• “anticoagulant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French anticoagulant.

Noun

anticoagulant m (plural anticoagulante)

1. anticoagulant

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	anticoagulant	anticoagulantul		anticoagulante	anticoagulantei
genitive-dative	anticoagulant	anticoagulantului		anticoagulante	anticoagulantelor
vocative	anticoagulantule			anticoagulantelor