anticoagulant

Questions about anticoagulant

What does anticoagulant mean?

anticoagulant means "medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of blood".

How many syllables are in anticoagulant?

anticoagulant has 6 syllables: an-ti-co-a-gu-lant. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for anticoagulant?

Close synonyms include anticoagulant medication, decoagulant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is anticoagulant a common word?

anticoagulant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.