A substance or agent with anticoagulant properties; a type of anticoagulant compound.
From 'anti-' (against) + 'coagulin' (blood-clotting substance). Early medical term from the 19th-20th century transition.
When scientists first discovered that certain snake venoms and medicinal compounds could prevent clotting, they created names like 'anticoagulin' before settling on modern 'anticoagulant.'
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