Associations to the word «Prothrombin»

Wiktionary

PROTHROMBIN, noun. (protein) A glycoprotein, produced in the liver, that is converted into thrombin during bleeding and subsequent clotting.

Dictionary definition

PROTHROMBIN, noun. A protein in blood plasma that is the inactive precursor of thrombin.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne