fibrinolysin

Questions about fibrinolysin

What does fibrinolysin mean?

fibrinolysin means "an enzyme that dissolves the fibrin of blood clots".

How many syllables are in fibrinolysin?

fibrinolysin has 5 syllables and divides as fi-bri-no-ly-sin 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 fibrinolysin?

Close synonyms include plasmin. 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 fibrinolysin a common word?

fibrinolysin 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.