🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

agente coagulante

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ah-hen-teh koh-ah-goo-lahn-teh

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Clotting Agent/ˈklɒt.ɪŋ ˈeɪ.dʒənt/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #1500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Se administró un agente coagulante para controlar la hemorragia."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A substance that promotes the coagulation of blood.

    "The doctor administered a clotting agent to help control the patient's bleeding during surgery."
  2. 2

    Any chemical or biological substance that facilitates the process of clot formation.

    "Certain medications act as clotting agents to prevent excessive bleeding in patients with clotting disorders."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term 'clotting agent' combines 'clotting', derived from the Old English 'clottian', meaning to form a clot, and 'agent', from Latin 'agens', meaning one who acts. The phrase evolved in medical terminology to describe substances that promote coagulation in blood.

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