thrombin
(noun) an enzyme that acts on fibrinogen in blood causing it to clot
Source: WordNet® 3.1
thrombin (countable and uncountable, plural thrombins)
(enzyme) An enzyme in blood that facilitates blood clotting by converting fibrinogen to fibrin (by means of ionized calcium).
• factor II
Source: Wiktionary
Throm"bin, n. [See Thrombus.] (Physiol. Chem.)
Definition: The fibrin ferment which produces the formation of fibrin from fibrinogen.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 February 2025
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
