cothromboplastin

Questions about cothromboplastin

What does cothromboplastin mean?

cothromboplastin means "a coagulation factor formed in the kidney under the influence of vitamin K".

How many syllables are in cothromboplastin?

cothromboplastin has 5 syllables and divides as co-throm-bo-pla-stin 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 cothromboplastin?

Close synonyms include proconvertin, stable factor, factor VII. 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 cothromboplastin a common word?

cothromboplastin 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.