How to Use anticoagulant in a Sentence

anticoagulant

noun

• Caregivers have to scrub the hub at the end of the line for 15 seconds, then flush it with a syringe full of saline or anticoagulant.
  — Melissa Bailey, Kaiser Health News, 19 Sep. 2017
• She was started, too, on an anticoagulant that thins the blood to help prevent clots.
  — Carolyn Barber, Scientific American, 12 Jan. 2022
• Red blood-cells are then mixed with an anticoagulant and transfused back into the donor.
  — The Economist, 10 May 2018
• An anticoagulant can help prevent blood clots from forming that might lead to a stroke.
  — Joe and Teresa Graedon, oregonlive, 24 July 2023
• There are four new blood thinners, called direct oral anticoagulants, that have been studied over the past 10 years and are available for use worldwide.
  — Sandy Bauers, Philly.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• Her annual stroke risk would be 2.2%, tipping the scale enough for her to be prescribed an anticoagulant.
  — John Fauber and Coulter Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
• The recent rise in BMS revenue has been led by market share gains for some of its drugs, including its anticoagulant – Eliquis.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
• The boy was treated with anticoagulants and made a full recovery.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
• The predators discharge an anticoagulant to keep the blood flowing.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 7 July 2022
• Kaput comes in pellets that are infused with warfarin, an anticoagulant used to minimize the chances of blood clots in humans that can cause heart attacks or strokes.
  — The Times-Picayune Editorial Board, NOLA.com, 1 June 2017
• Draculin is an anticoagulant from vampire bat venom and is used to treat stroke and heart attack.
  — New York Times, 3 May 2022
• The anticoagulant in leech saliva, known as Hirduin, is one of the strongest on the market — and is even synthesized in labs to be used in the medical world for conditions like thrombosis.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2023
• Kim says all patients with the disease admitted to his hospital are given a very low dose of an anticoagulant.
  — Monique Brouillette, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2020
• The fourth new anticoagulant, Savaysa, was approved in January, so such data is not yet available.
  — John Fauber and Coulter Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
• One of the direct oral anticoagulants has a true antidote.
  — Sandy Bauers, Philly.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• Hirudin, the anticoagulant in leech saliva, is unrivalled in its strength, according to Kvist.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 2 Dec. 2019
• After the study, anticoagulants were prescribed for 72 patients who were found to have undiagnosed A-fib.
  — Tom Avril, Philly.com, 26 Sep. 2017
• She was treated with heparin, but her condition worsened and she was switched to a different anticoagulant and IVIG.
  — NBC News, 19 Apr. 2021
• These drugs are known as direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs).
  — Howard Lewine, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Aug. 2019
• The rat poison — which contained an anticoagulant — would have made sure the people hit wouldn’t have stopped bleeding easily; the feces was likely there to cause an infection in every wound.
  — Leah Sottile, Longreads, 20 July 2019
• However, if the colonoscopy is being performed to remove a large polyp, for example, then there is a significant risk of bleeding if the anticoagulant isn’t stopped.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 4 Sep. 2021
• Another pair holds your tissues open while the last pair works together to drool mosquito saliva into the wound—which contains an anticoagulant, to keep your blood from clotting—and suck up a body-full of your blood.
  — Outdoor Life Staff, Outdoor Life, 11 Jan. 2021
• The saliva of these blood-consuming predators contains an anticoagulant, dubbed draculin by the researchers who found it, that can dissolve blood clots.
  — Anthony King, Discover Magazine, 4 June 2012
• Beyond vaccines, Pfizer has cancer drug Ibrance, biosimilars for some of the top-selling cancer drugs, Xeljanz, and anticoagulant, Eliquis - as well a solid late stage pipeline, that will aid its top-line growth.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 18 June 2021
• Its anticoagulant – Eliquis – continues to gain market share and bolster the company’s overall top-line growth.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
• This class of chemicals activates the cannabinoid receptors in the brain while acting as anticoagulants or blood thinners.
  — Susan Scutti, CNN, 6 Apr. 2018
• However, the lawsuit alleges that Brayden was never given Heparin or another anticoagulant, drugs used to prevent blood clots in the lungs after such a surgery.
  — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com, 12 Jan. 2022
• In the clinical trial of Eliquis, patients getting the drug were 11% less likely to die from any cause than those getting warfarin, which for decades had been the only anticoagulant used to prevent strokes in people with atrial fibrillation.
  — John Fauber and Coulter Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
• Indeed, what makes AFib such a good test case for the digital health revolution is that, once caught, it can often be treated cheaply and effectively with oral anticoagulants.
  — Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2017
• Some early studies have shown that treating patients with anticoagulants can help.
  — Maggie Fox, CNN, 27 May 2020

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024