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Definition of Prothrombin
1. Noun. A protein in blood plasma that is the inactive precursor of thrombin.
Definition of Prothrombin
1. Noun. (protein) A glycoprotein, produced in the liver, that is converted into thrombin during bleeding and subsequent clotting ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prothrombin
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prothrombin
Literary usage of Prothrombin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry by Olof Hammarsten (1911)
"The observation that uncoagulated leech-plasma does not coagulate on the addition
of calcium salts, while it does coagulate on the addition of prothrombin ..."
2. The Harvey Lectures by Harvey Society of New York, New York Academy of Medicine (1918)
"At the time of the shedding of blood there is a massive destruction of platelets
which must add a large increment to the supply of prothrombin carried by ..."
3. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry: By John A. Mandel by Olof Hammarsten (1908)
"The observation that uncoagulated leech-plasma does not coagulate on the addition
of calcium salts, while it does coagulate on the addition of prothrombin ..."
4. A Text-book of physiological chemistry by Olof Hammarsten, John Alfred Mandel (1908)
"The observation that uncoagulated leech-plasma does not coagulate on the addition
of calcium salts, while it does coagulate on the addition of prothrombin ..."
5. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry by Olof Hammarsten, Sven Gustaf Hedin (1914)
"appreciable amounts of prothrombin. This body, according to him, passes before
coagulation from the form-elements into the plasma, and is there converted ..."
6. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1917)
"Minot therefore suggests that in studying prothrombin time there be used a ...
It has been shown that prothrombin is present in considerable quantities in ..."
7. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"Though when administered intravenously epinephrin distinctly increases the
coagulability of the blood (Cannon and Gray) by increasing the prothrombin ..."
8. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry by Olof Hammarsten (1900)
"According to PEKELHARING * thrombin is the lime combination of prothrombin, and
the process of coagulation consists, according to him, in the thrombin ..."
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