thrombin

1. 1.

   an enzyme that acts on fibrinogen in blood causing it to clot

   Broadercoagulase

Other forms of thrombin

plural

thrombins·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about thrombin

What does thrombin mean?

thrombin means "an enzyme that acts on fibrinogen in blood causing it to clot".

How many syllables are in thrombin?

thrombin has 2 syllables and divides as throm-bin 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.