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Webster 1913 Edition


Fibrinogen

Fi-brin′o-gen

,
Noun.
[
Fibrin
+
-gen
.]
(Physiol. Chem.)
An albuminous substance existing in the blood, and in other animal fluids, which either alone or with fibrinoplastin or paraglobulin forms fibrin, and thus causes coagulation.