Associations to the word «Heparin»

Wiktionary

HEPARIN, noun. (medicine) (carbohydrate) A glycosaminoglycan, originally isolated from liver cells, now made synthetically for medical use, used as an anticoagulant

Dictionary definition

HEPARIN, noun. 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.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King