The inhibition or prevention of fibrinolysis, the breakdown of blood clots in the body.
From anti- + fibrinolysis (breakdown of fibrin clots). Medical terminology established to describe compounds that prevent clot dissolution.
Doctors use antifibrinolysis drugs after surgery to keep clots from dissolving too early and causing dangerous bleeding, but give the opposite drugs if blood clots form dangerously in veins.
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