hirudinize
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hirudinize (third-person singular simple present hirudinizes, present participle hirudinizing, simple past and past participle hirudinized)
- (medicine) To inject hirudin into blood to prevent coagulation.
- 1910, Robert T. Frank, “Has Ovotherapy An Experimental Basis?”, in Archives of Internal Medicine, volume 6, page 318:
- In the hirudin experiments to be detailed, equal parts of the same extract were employed in hirudinized and control animals.
- 1927, E.H. Rubin, Norman N. Smith, “Relation of Hemoglobin, Cell Count and Cell Volume to the Erythrocyte Sedimentation Reaction”, in Archives of Internal Medicine, volume 39, page 309:
- The hirudinized blood of a control was divided evenly into four small test tubes.
- 1927 May 25, Myron M. Weaver, “Distribution of Pancreatic Secretin”, in American Journal of Physiology, volume 82, page 110:
- Suitable precautions are necessary to prevent coagulation in the splenic artery and this may be accomplished either by hirudinizing the animal or, what has proved more satisfactory […]
- 2015 August 29, “High Platelet Reactivity in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndromes Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Randomised Controlled Trial Comparing Prasugrel and Clopidogrel”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- A 600μL blood sample acquired in hirudinized tubes (Sarstedt) was obtained to perform ADP and TRAP tests in each patient.