dicoumaroldicumaroln.
/dʌɪˈkuːmərɒl/ Chemistry.
= dicoumarin n. (in its specific sense). Dicumarol is a proprietary term in the U.S. (see quot. 1942).
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1942 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 28 July 721/2 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation... Dicumarol for anti-coagulants. Claims use since May 15, 1942.
1943 Lancet 14 Aug. 195/1 The work on the anticoagulant drug 3:3-methylenebis-(4-hydroxycoumarin) was done in America;..the Americans have adopted ‘dicoumarol’ as its short name.
1943 Lancet 28 Aug. 276/2 ‘Dicoumarol’..should be spelled ‘dicumarol’.
1948 Reader's Digest Nov. 32/1 From the Mayo Clinic, where dicumarol was used postoperatively in 1686 cases.
1948 Sci. News 7 63 Dicoumarol is now being used in medicine in conditions where it is desirable deliberately to decrease the clotting power of the blood.
1952 Sci. News 25 113 Dicoumarol is the only naturally occurring anti-vitamin.
1970 K. V. F. Jubb & P. C. Kennedy Pathol. Domest. Animals (ed. 2) I. 361/1 Dicoumarol is the toxic factor responsible for sweetclover poisoning of livestock.
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