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Definition: Prothrombin |
ProthrombinNoun1. A protein in blood plasma that is the inactive precursor of thrombin. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | A plasma protein that is the inactive precursor of thrombin. It is converted to thrombin by a prothrombin activator complex consisting of factor Xa, factor V, phospholipid, and calcium ions. Deficiency of prothrombin leads to hypoprothrombinemia. (references) |
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Synonym: ProthrombinSynonym: factor II (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Prothrombin |
| English words defined with "prothrombin": factor III, factor X ♦ hypothrombinemia ♦ prothrombinase ♦ thrombokinase, thromboplastin. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "prothrombin": 1-Carboxyglutamic Acid ♦ Bernard-Soulier Syndrome ♦ Factor Va, Factor X Deficiency, Factor Xa ♦ Hypoprothrombinemias ♦ Lupus Coagulation Inhibitor ♦ Partial Thromboplastin Time, Platelet Factor 3, Prothrombin Time. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Prothrombin" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (prothrombin). |
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Health | HAS will examine the level of activity of the hemostatic system in stroke patients enrolled in the WARSS trial (described below) by measuring the blood plasma level of the protein named prothrombin activation fragment F1+2. The purpose of the HAS study is to determine if patients with previous embolic strokes have a higher level of F1+2 than patients with other types of ischemic stroke. (references) | |
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| "Prothrombin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Prothrombin" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 18 | 82,615 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "prothrombin": prothrombin accelerator ♦ Prothrombin Time. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "prothrombin": prothrombin-converting. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
prothrombin time | 57 |
prothrombin | 32 |
antibody prothrombin | 13 |
gene mutation prothrombin | 8 |
mutation prothrombin | 3 |
prothrombin test time | 3 |
prothrombin test | 3 |
2 factor prothrombin | 2 |
inr prothrombin time | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "prothrombin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 凝血 子 (thromboplastin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | protrombin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | protrombine, prothrombine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | protrombiiniaika (prothrombin consumption index). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | prothrombine (f), prothrombine, facteur II. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Prothrombin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | προθρομβίνη. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | protrombina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | othrombinpray protrombina. (various references) protrombina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "prothrombin": prothrombins. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-h-i-m-n-o-o-p-r-r-t" | |
-3 letters: thrombin, trimorph. | |
-4 letters: bimorph, biotron, hornito, monitor, morphin, morrion, portion, thrombi, tompion. | |
-5 letters: bonito, bromin, import, intomb, morion, morpho, motion, option, photon, potion, probit, pronto, proton, rhombi, thoron, torpor, tropin. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-h-i-m-n-o-o-p-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: prothrombins. | |
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