FIBRINOLYSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fibrinolysis mean? 

• FIBRINOLYSIS (noun)
  The noun FIBRINOLYSIS has 1 sense:

1. a normal ongoing process that dissolves fibrin and results in the removal of small blood clots

  Familiarity information: FIBRINOLYSIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIBRINOLYSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A normal ongoing process that dissolves fibrin and results in the removal of small blood clots

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Context example:

drugs causing fibrinolysis have been utilized therapeutically

Hypernyms ("fibrinolysis" is a kind of...):

disintegration; dissolution (separation into component parts)

 Context examples 

Thrombin activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor (TAFI) is a carboxypeptidase B-like proenzyme activated by the thrombin-thrombomodulin dimer.

(Fibrinolysis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

This allele, which encodes plasma kallikrein protein, is involved in the regulation of proteolysis, blood coagulation, fibrinolysis and inflammation.

(KLKB1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is involved in fibrinolysis, platelet activation and tissue remodeling.

(Plasminogen, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is involved in blood coagulation and fibrinolysis.

(Coagulation Factor XII, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in blood coagulation and fibrinolysis.

(F12 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes coagulation factor XII protein, plays a role in coagulation, fibrinolysis, and the generation of bradykinin and angiotensin.

(F12 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

The sealer protein solution contains clottable human fibrinogen and bovine aprotinin, a fibrinolysis inhibitor; the thrombin solution contains human thrombin and calcium chloride.

(Fibrin sealant, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes deleted in bladder cancer protein 1, is involved in the modulation of cellular proliferation, the inhibition of the G1/S transition of the cell cycle, the mediation of non-apoptotic cell death and the regulation of the expression of components of the fibrinolysis pathway.

(DBC1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

As a broad-spectrum serine protease inhibitor, aprotinin bovine competitively and reversibly inhibits the activity of a number of different esterases and proteases, including trypsin, chymotrypsin, kallikrein, plasmin, tissue plasminogen activator, and tissue and leukocytic proteinases, resulting in attenuation of the systemic inflammatory response (SIR), fibrinolysis, and thrombin generation.

(Aprotinin, NCI Thesaurus)

Clot formation and fibrinolysis is a balance of plasmin activation/inhibition and thrombin-thrombomodulin activity that regulates fibrin polymer formation and degradation.

(Fibrinolysis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)