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Definition of Plasmin

1. Noun. An enzyme that dissolves the fibrin of blood clots.

Definition of Plasmin

1. n. A proteid body, separated by some physiologists from blood plasma. It is probably identical with fibrinogen.

Definition of Plasmin

1. Noun. (enzyme) A proteolytic enzyme that dissolves the fibrin in blood clots ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Plasmin

1. an enzyme [n -S] - See also: enzyme

Medical Definition of Plasmin

1. Trypsin like serine protease that is responsible for digesting fibrin in blood clots. Generated from plasminogen by the action of another protease, plasminogen activator. The enzyme catalyses the hydrolysis of peptide bonds at the carbonyl end of lysine or arginine residues. It also acts on activated Hagemann factor and on complement. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Plasmin

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

1. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1871)
"The plasmin of Denis is obtained as follows:—Venous blood is drawn into TJ-th its volume of a saturated solution of sulphate of soda ; the blood corpuscles ..."

2. A Treatise on the practice of medicine by Roberts Bartholow (1898)
"Serum is the plasma which has lost its plasmin by coagulation. When blood is allowed to stand under suitable conditions, it separates into corpuscles and ..."

3. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1871)
"The plasmin of Denis is obtained as follows:—Venous blood is drawn into TJ-th its volume of a saturated solution of sulphate of soda ; the blood corpuscles ..."

4. A Treatise on the practice of medicine by Roberts Bartholow (1898)
"Serum is the plasma which has lost its plasmin by coagulation. When blood is allowed to stand under suitable conditions, it separates into corpuscles and ..."

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