antiplatelet

antiplatelet

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ platelet

Adjective

antiplatelet (not comparable)

1. (immunology) Working against or destroying blood platelets.

Translations

destroying blood platelets

Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can Danish: please add this translation if you can Finnish: antitromboottinen French: antiplaquettaire German: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: trombocitagátló

Italian: antiaggregante (it) m Portuguese: antiplaquetas, antiplaqueta Russian: антитромбоцита́рный (antitrombocitárnyj) Turkish: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: антитромбоцитарний (antytrombocitárnyj) Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Noun

antiplatelet (plural antiplatelets)

1. A drug that destroys blood platelets.
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     Discharge drugs included antihypertensives, statins, and antiplatelets (aspirin, aspirin/dipyridamole, clopidogrel, aspirin/clopidogrel dual antiplatelet therapy, and other antiplatelet agents).

References

• "antiplatelet" in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004), accessed 1 November 2009
• “antiplatelet” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.