DICOUMAROL

dicumarol, dicoumarol

(noun) an anticoagulant drug that has now been largely replaced by warfarin

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

dicoumarol (countable and uncountable, plural dicoumarols)

An anticoagulant that functions as a vitamin K antagonist, also used in biochemical experiments as an inhibitor of reductases.

Source: Wiktionary



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An article published in Harvard Menโ€™s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.

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