clotting factor

Questions about clotting factor

What does clotting factor mean?

clotting factor means "any of the factors in the blood whose actions are essential for blood coagulation".

What is another word for clotting factor?

Close synonyms include coagulation factor. 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 clotting factor a common word?

clotting factor 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.