Glossary

Anticoagulant

Anticoagulant

Antikoagulans·Also: Gerinnungshemmer, Blutverdünner

An anticoagulant is a medicine that inhibits blood clotting and thus prevents the formation of blood clots. In everyday language it is often called a «blood thinner».

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