What does hirudine mean?
Hirudine means (zoology) Of or relating to the leeches..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(zoology) Of or relating to the leeches..
Other factors may contribute to the development of a hirudine constitution by causing primarily a decrease in the water and mineral content of the body.
Weill and Nouriquand conclude that under certain conditions hemorrhage may develop after leech applications in consequenc of a hemophilia due to hirudine. Investigations have been made showing that hirudine is a nucleoproteid, which they hope to demonstrate in the blood of such patients.
The antagonistic action of hirudine may be exerted at several stages of the coagulation of the blood. Hirudine can retard indefinitely the transformation of proserozyme into serozyme, can markedly retard the reaction between serozyme and cytozyme which produces thrombin, and can function as an antithrombin and neutralize the thrombin when the latter is formed.
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Hirudine means (zoology) Of or relating to the leeches..
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Other factors may contribute to the development of a hirudine constitution by causing primarily a decrease in the water and mineral content of the body.
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