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Tells your blood to chill out, literally, before it turns into cement.
means A substance that slows or stops blood from clotting.
from Built from Latin parts: 'anti-' (against) plus 'coagulant,' from 'coagulare' — to curdle or clot, itself from 'co-' (together) and 'agere' (to drive). So the word is literally 'against the driving-together' — against the clumping. Medical use of these compounds took off in the 20th century, notably with the discovery of heparin and the development of warfarin, the latter originally marketed as rat poison before becoming a standard blood thinner.
- origin
- first one came from spoiled sweet clover killing cattle
- warfarin
- doubles as rat poison at higher doses
- not a thinner
- blood stays same thickness, just clots slower
- tradeoff
- saves you from clots, risks you bleeding out