ANTICOAGULANT MEDICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does anticoagulant medication mean? 

• ANTICOAGULANT MEDICATION (noun)
  The noun ANTICOAGULANT MEDICATION has 1 sense:

1. medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of blood

  Familiarity information: ANTICOAGULANT MEDICATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANTICOAGULANT MEDICATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of blood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

anticoagulant; anticoagulant medication; decoagulant

Hypernyms ("anticoagulant medication" is a kind of...):

medicament; medication; medicinal drug; medicine ((medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "anticoagulant medication"):

dicoumarol; dicumarol (an anticoagulant drug that has now been largely replaced by warfarin)

heparin; Lipo-Hepin; Liquaemin (a polysaccharide produced in basophils (especially in the lung and liver) and that inhibits the activity of thrombin in coagulation of the blood; it (trade names Lipo-Hepin and Liquaemin) is used as an anticoagulant in the treatment of thrombosis and in heart surgery)

Coumadin; warfarin (an anticoagulant (trade name Coumadin) use to prevent and treat a thrombus or embolus)