plasmin

Questions about plasmin

What does plasmin mean?

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

How many syllables are in plasmin?

plasmin has 2 syllables and divides as pla-smin 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 plasmin?

Close synonyms include fibrinolysin. 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 plasmin a common word?

plasmin 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.