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heparinlike

heparinlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of heparin.

Adjective

heparinlike (comparative more heparinlike, superlative most heparinlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of heparin.
    • The F.D.A. is still investigating whether those deaths and hundreds of allergic reactions were caused by a heparinlike contaminant made in China that was added to the drug somewhere during the manufacturing process.2008 April 10, Walt Bogdanich, “Heparin Is Now Suspected in 62 Fatalities Across U.S.”, in New York Times

Forms of heparinlike

comparativemore heparinlike
superlativemost heparinlike

Origin of heparinlike

From heparin + -like.

Questions about heparinlike

What does heparinlike mean?
Heparinlike means resembling or characteristic of heparin.
What part of speech is heparinlike?
Heparinlike is an adjective.

Words near heparinlike in the dictionary

  1. heparinizations
  2. heparinize
  3. heparinized
  4. heparinizes
  5. heparinizing
  6. heparinlike
  7. heparinoid
  8. heparinoids
  9. heparins
  10. heparitin
  11. heparization

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