thromboplastin

What does thromboplastin mean?

thromboplastin means "an enzyme liberated from blood platelets that converts prothrombin into thrombin as blood starts to clot".

How many syllables are in thromboplastin?

thromboplastin has 4 syllables and divides as 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 thromboplastin?

Close synonyms include thrombokinase, factor III. 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 thromboplastin a common word?

thromboplastin 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for thromboplastin come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.