How to Use anticoagulant in a Sentence

anticoagulant

noun
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  • Caregivers have to scrub the hub at the end of the line for 15 seconds, then flush it with a syringe full of saline or anticoagulant.
    — Melissa Bailey, Kaiser Health News, 19 Sep. 2017
  • She was started, too, on an anticoagulant that thins the blood to help prevent clots.
    — Carolyn Barber, Scientific American, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Red blood-cells are then mixed with an anticoagulant and transfused back into the donor.
    — The Economist, 10 May 2018
  • An anticoagulant can help prevent blood clots from forming that might lead to a stroke.
    — Joe and Teresa Graedon, oregonlive, 24 July 2023
  • In addition, the doctors may have given him aspirin, which at that time was used for pain, but was not then known to be an anticoagulant.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 9 July 2024
  • There are four new blood thinners, called direct oral anticoagulants, that have been studied over the past 10 years and are available for use worldwide.
    — Sandy Bauers, Philly.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Her annual stroke risk would be 2.2%, tipping the scale enough for her to be prescribed an anticoagulant.
    — John Fauber and Coulter Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
  • The recent rise in BMS revenue has been led by market share gains for some of its drugs, including its anticoagulant – Eliquis.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The boy was treated with anticoagulants and made a full recovery.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The predators discharge an anticoagulant to keep the blood flowing.
    — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 7 July 2022
  • Kaput comes in pellets that are infused with warfarin, an anticoagulant used to minimize the chances of blood clots in humans that can cause heart attacks or strokes.
    — The Times-Picayune Editorial Board, NOLA.com, 1 June 2017
  • Draculin is an anticoagulant from vampire bat venom and is used to treat stroke and heart attack.
    — New York Times, 3 May 2022
  • The anticoagulant in leech saliva, known as Hirduin, is one of the strongest on the market — and is even synthesized in labs to be used in the medical world for conditions like thrombosis.
    — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2023
  • Kim says all patients with the disease admitted to his hospital are given a very low dose of an anticoagulant.
    — Monique Brouillette, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2020
  • The fourth new anticoagulant, Savaysa, was approved in January, so such data is not yet available.
    — John Fauber and Coulter Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
  • One of the direct oral anticoagulants has a true antidote.
    — Sandy Bauers, Philly.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Hirudin, the anticoagulant in leech saliva, is unrivalled in its strength, according to Kvist.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 2 Dec. 2019
  • After the study, anticoagulants were prescribed for 72 patients who were found to have undiagnosed A-fib.
    — Tom Avril, Philly.com, 26 Sep. 2017
  • She was treated with heparin, but her condition worsened and she was switched to a different anticoagulant and IVIG.
    — NBC News, 19 Apr. 2021
  • These drugs are known as direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs).
    — Howard Lewine, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • The rat poison — which contained an anticoagulant — would have made sure the people hit wouldn’t have stopped bleeding easily; the feces was likely there to cause an infection in every wound.
    — Leah Sottile, Longreads, 20 July 2019
  • However, if the colonoscopy is being performed to remove a large polyp, for example, then there is a significant risk of bleeding if the anticoagulant isn’t stopped.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 4 Sep. 2021
  • Another pair holds your tissues open while the last pair works together to drool mosquito saliva into the wound—which contains an anticoagulant, to keep your blood from clotting—and suck up a body-full of your blood.
    — Outdoor Life Staff, Outdoor Life, 11 Jan. 2021
  • The saliva of these blood-consuming predators contains an anticoagulant, dubbed draculin by the researchers who found it, that can dissolve blood clots.
    — Anthony King, Discover Magazine, 4 June 2012
  • Most were second-generation anticoagulants, and analyses of liver tissue found 91% of the hawks carried two or more.
    — Bydina Fine Maron, science.org, 10 July 2024
  • Beyond vaccines, Pfizer has cancer drug Ibrance, biosimilars for some of the top-selling cancer drugs, Xeljanz, and anticoagulant, Eliquis - as well a solid late stage pipeline, that will aid its top-line growth.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes, 18 June 2021
  • Its anticoagulant – Eliquis – continues to gain market share and bolster the company’s overall top-line growth.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
  • This class of chemicals activates the cannabinoid receptors in the brain while acting as anticoagulants or blood thinners.
    — Susan Scutti, CNN, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The company has seen market share gains for some of its drugs, including its anticoagulant – Eliquis – and its newer drugs, including Camzyos and Opdualag, among others.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • However, the lawsuit alleges that Brayden was never given Heparin or another anticoagulant, drugs used to prevent blood clots in the lungs after such a surgery.
    — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com, 12 Jan. 2022

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