🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

trombolítico

Pronunciation / Transliteration: trombolítico

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Thrombolytic/ˌθrɒm.bəˈlɪt.ɪk/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O trombolítico foi administrado rapidamente para restaurar o fluxo sanguíneo."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Relating to the dissolution of blood clots.

    "Thrombolytic therapy is often used in emergency medicine to treat patients with heart attacks."
As noun
  1. 1

    A drug or agent that dissolves blood clots.

    "The doctor administered a thrombolytic to help restore blood flow to the patient's heart."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term 'thrombolytic' is derived from the Greek word 'thrombos', meaning 'clot', and 'lytic', from the Greek 'lytikos', meaning 'able to dissolve'. It emerged in the medical lexicon in the late 20th century as advancements in treatment for blood clots developed.

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