Meaning of hirudinin | Babel Free

Definitions

An anticoagulant secretion of leeches.

uncountable

Examples

“In bloodsucking leeches, the stomach becomes a spacious crop with lateral, paired caeca for the storage of food between feedings, and the saliva contains the anticoagulant hirudinin, which keeps the food fluid until digestion.”

“Secretion of the anticoagulant hirudinin (a specific, highly effective thrombin inhibitor) at the bite site by the leech assures oozing or dripping of blood from the bite well after the leech has completed its meal.”

“Hirudinin, a powerful anticoagulant secreted by the leech, causes continued bleeding after the leech has detached.”

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