Definition of blood thinner
: a drug used to prevent the formation of blood clots by hindering coagulation of the blood
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The drug, known as tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), is a potent blood thinner and was approved as an effective clot-busting treatment by the Food and Drug Administration in 1996.
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Pfizer’s financial fortunes were boosted by strong demand for flagship drugs like the Prevnar, the rheumatoid arthritis treatment Xeljanz, and the blood thinner Eliquis.
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Cobalt Lodge Health Care and Rehabilitation Center in East Hampton was fined $540 after a resident went six days without receiving a blood thinner medication.
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Why So Many Americans Still Die in Childbirth With her history of blood clots in mind, Williams requested a CT scan and blood thinner.
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Poison, perhaps in the form of the poisonous, tasteless blood thinner warfarin, could have easily been slipped in Stalin’s drink and could have caused his stomach hemorrhaging, Faria writes.
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Snyder didn’t send him to the hospital but instead treated him with amyl nitrate for angina; heparin, a blood thinner; and morphine for the pain.
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Bristol-Meyers, maker of the blood thinner Plavix, is based in New York.
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The list of drugs made there includes 13 of the world’s top-selling brand-name drugs, such as Humira, the rheumatoid arthritis drug, and Xarelto, a blood thinner for stroke prevention, The New York Times reported.
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First Known Use of blood thinner
1879
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medical Definition of blood thinner
: a drug used to prevent the formation of blood clots by hindering coagulation of the blood
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