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thrombins

thrombins is the plural of thrombin.

Meaning of thrombin

Noun

thrombin (countable and uncountable, plural thrombins)

  1. An enzyme in blood that facilitates blood clotting by converting fibrinogen to fibrin (by means of ionized calcium).
    Synonyms:
    factor II

Questions about thrombins

What is thrombins the plural of?
Thrombins is the plural of thrombin.

Words near thrombins in the dictionary

  1. thrombin clotting times
  2. thrombin time
  3. thrombin times
  4. thrombinlike
  5. thrombinography
  6. thrombins
  7. thrombinuria
  8. thrombo-
  9. thrombo-end-arterectomy
  10. thrombo-endarterectomies
  11. thrombo-endarterectomy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thrombins (page history and authors); thrombin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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