Definition of Defibrinate

1. Verb. Remove fibrin from (blood).

Generic synonyms: Get Rid Of, Remove

Definition of Defibrinate

1. v. t. To deprive of fibrin, as fresh blood or lymph by stirring with twigs.

Definition of Defibrinate

1. Verb. (transitive) To remove fibrin from; to deprive of fibrin. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Defibrinate

1. [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES]

Medical Definition of Defibrinate

1. To deprive of fibrin, as fresh blood or lymph by stirring with twigs. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Defibrinate

defiantness
defiatory
defibrate
defibrated
defibrates
defibrating
defibration
defibrillate
defibrillated
defibrillates
defibrillating
defibrillation
defibrillations
defibrillator
defibrillators
defibrinate (current term)
defibrinated
defibrinates
defibrinating
defibrination
defibrinations
defibrinize
defibrinized
defibrinizes
defibrinizing
deficience
deficiences
deficiencies
deficiency
deficiency anaemia

Literary usage of Defibrinate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1918)
"They then defibrinate the blood by stirring with a thick wire for about five minutes and remove the wire with the adhering clot. ..."

2. The Diagnostics and treatment of tropical diseases by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1914)
"They then defibrinate the blood by stirring with a thick wire for about 5 minutes and remove the wire with the adhering clot. ..."

3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1875)
"After the production of anaesthesia by chloroform the blood was collected from the carotid artery, stirred in order to defibrinate it, strained, ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1875)
"After the production of anaesthesia by chloroform, the blood was collected from the carotid artery, stirred in order to defibrinate it, strained, ..."

5. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1874)
"As circumstances left no choice between immediate and mediate transfusion, it became necessary to defibrinate the blood. The man who yielded the blood was ..."

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