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FIBRINOLYSIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A normal ongoing process that dissolves fibrin and results in the removal of small blood clots
Example:
drugs causing fibrinolysis have been utilized therapeutically
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("fibrinolysis" is a kind of...):
disintegration; dissolution (separation into component parts)