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 and divides as an-ti-co-a-gu-lant under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.