heparin

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Etymology

Latin hepar (“liver”), and -in.

Noun

heparin (countable and uncountable, plural heparins)

  1. (medicine, biochemistry) A glycosaminoglycan, originally isolated from liver cells, now made synthetically for medical use, used as an anticoagulant

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