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hirudinize

hirudinize verb: to inject hirudin into blood to prevent coagulation.

Verb

hirudinize (third-person singular simple present hirudinizes, present participle hirudinizing, simple past and past participle hirudinized)

  1. To inject hirudin into blood to prevent coagulation.
    • In the hirudin experiments to be detailed, equal parts of the same extract were employed in hirudinized and control animals.1910, Robert T. Frank, “Has Ovotherapy An Experimental Basis?”, in Archives of Internal Medicine, volume 6, page 318
    • The hirudinized blood of a control was divided evenly into four small test tubes.1927, E.H. Rubin, Norman N. Smith, “Relation of Hemoglobin, Cell Count and Cell Volume to the Erythrocyte Sedimentation Reaction”, in Archives of Internal Medicine, volume 39, page 309

Forms of hirudinize

third-person singular presenthirudinizes
present participlehirudinizing
past participlehirudinized
pasthirudinized

Origin of hirudinize

From hirudin + -ize.

Questions about hirudinize

What does hirudinize mean?
Hirudinize means to inject hirudin into blood to prevent coagulation.
What part of speech is hirudinize?
Hirudinize is a verb.
What is the past tense of hirudinize?
The past tense of hirudinize is hirudinized.

Words near hirudinize in the dictionary

  1. hirudiniasis
  2. hirudiniculture
  3. hirudinin
  4. hirudinised
  5. hirudinization
  6. hirudinize
  7. hirudinized
  8. hirudinizes
  9. hirudinizing
  10. hirudins
  11. Hiruharama

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