Etymology

fibrinoplastin

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Today it means: An albuminous substance in the blood which, in combination with fibrinogen, forms fibrin. Now understood to be any of a certain group of proteins in the blood, each of whose members has a more modern name. Full definition →

Ancient Greek πλαστός
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromπλαστός“mouldable”
  2. English todayfibrinoplastin

From fibrin + Ancient Greek πλαστός (plastós, “mouldable”); compare plastic.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekπλαστός all →

plastidplastin

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