CLOTTING TIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clotting time mean? 

• CLOTTING TIME (noun)
  The noun CLOTTING TIME has 1 sense:

1. the time it takes for a sample of blood to clot; used to diagnose some clotting disorders

  Familiarity information: CLOTTING TIME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLOTTING TIME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The time it takes for a sample of blood to clot; used to diagnose some clotting disorders

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("clotting time" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

 Context examples 

It normally occurs in the absence of patient or family history of hemorrhagic disorders and is marked by prolonged clotting time.

(Hereditary Factor XII Deficiency, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

All results are standardized using the international sensitivity index (ISI) for the particular thromboplastin reagent and instrument combination utilized to perform the test; the ratio of a patient's clotting time to the lab's mean reference value is normalized against the ISI.

(International Normalized Ratio, NCI Thesaurus)

It prolongs clotting time.

(Aprosulate, NCI Thesaurus)

Anisindione interferes with the vitamin K-dependent hepatic synthesis of active clotting factors by inhibiting the reduction of vitamin K. This leads to an inhibition of gamma-carboxylation of glutamic acid residues to gamma-carboxyglutamic acid in clotting factors II, VII, IX and X. The consequential effects of this inhibition include a reduced activity of these clotting factors and prolonged blood clotting time.

(Anisindione, NCI Thesaurus)