plasminogen activator

1. 1.

   protease produced in the kidney that converts plasminogen to plasmin and so initiates fibrinolysis

   Synonymsurokinase

   Broaderprotease

Questions about plasminogen activator

What does plasminogen activator mean?

plasminogen activator means "protease produced in the kidney that converts plasminogen to plasmin and so initiates fibrinolysis".

What is another word for plasminogen activator?

Close synonyms include urokinase. 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 plasminogen activator a common word?

plasminogen activator 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.