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Definition of Fibrinolytic
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Fibrinolytic
1. Pertaining to, characterised by or causing the dissolution of fibrin by enzymatic action Origin: Gr. Lysis = dissolution This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fibrinolytic
Literary usage of Fibrinolytic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Lewellys Franklin Barker, Milton Howard Fussell, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"(d) The fibrinolytic Ferment of the Blood Goodpasture has found that in some
cases of cirrhosis of the liver, there is present, in the blood stream, ..."
2. Alcohols Effect on Organ Function edited by Dianne M. Welsh (1997)
"An additional factor in alcohol's perturbing effect on fibrinolytic proteins may
involve its effects on modifiers that influence fibrinolytic activity, ..."
3. Health Consequences of Smoking: Cardiovascular Disease: Report of the by C. Everett Koop, M.D., DIANE Publishing Company (2004)
"In addition, the carboxy- ^ hemoglobin generated by smoking was associated with
increased platelet adhesiveness, decreased fibrinolytic activity, ..."
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