anticoagulant medication

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anticoagulant medication - medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of bloodanticoagulant, decoagulantdicoumarol, dicumarol - an anticoagulant drug that has now been largely replaced by warfarinheparin, Lipo-Hepin, Liquaemin - a polysaccharide produced in basophils (especially in the lung and liver) and that inhibits the activity of thrombin in coagulation of the blood; it (trade names Lipo-Hepin and Liquaemin) is used as an anticoagulant in the treatment of thrombosis and in heart surgerymedicament, medication, medicinal drug, medicine - (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of diseaseCoumadin, warfarin - an anticoagulant (trade name Coumadin) use to prevent and treat a thrombus or embolus