defibrinate
English
editEtymology
editFrom de- + fibrin + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
editVerb
editdefibrinate (third-person singular simple present defibrinates, present participle defibrinating, simple past and past participle defibrinated)
- (transitive, medicine) (of blood) To remove fibrin from; to deprive of fibrin.
- #* 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
- Van Helsing turning to me, said:— ‘He is so young and strong and of blood so pure that we need not defibrinate it.’
- #*