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ous, fibrous substance, formed in the coagulation of the blood either by decomposition of fibrinogen, or from the union of fibrinogen and paraglobulin which exist separately in the blood. It is insoluble in water, but is readily digestible in gastric and pancreatic juice.

The state of acquiring or having an excess of fibrin.

Belonging to the fibers of plants.

s substance existing in the blood, and in other animal fluids, which either alone or with fibrinoplastin or paraglobulin forms fibrin, and thus causes coagulation.

Possessed of properties similar to fibrinogen; capable of forming fibrin.

Like fibrinoplastin; capable of forming fibrin when brought in contact with fibrinogen.

An albuminous substance, existing in the blood, which in combination with fibrinogen forms fibrin; -- called also paraglobulin.

Having, or partaking of the properties of, fibrin; as, fibrious exudation.

To deprive of fibrin, as fresh blood or lymph by stirring with twigs.

The act or process of depriving of fibrin.

To defibrinate.

croup; as, croupous laryngitis. Croupous pneumonia, pneumonia attended with deposition of fibrinous matter in the air vesicles of the lungs; ordinary acute pneumonia.

sel, being brought thither by the blood current. It consists most frequently of a clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a morbid growth, a globule of fat, or a microscopic organism.

nx attended with the symptoms of membranous croup, but unassociated with the deposit of a fibrinous membrane. -- False door or window (Arch.), the representation of a door or window, inserted to complete a series of doors or windows or to give symmetry. -- False fire, a combustible carried by vessels of war, chiefly…

the plural the word is applied to a group of proteid substances such as vitellin, myosin, fibrinogen, etc., all insoluble in water, but soluble in dilute salt solutions.

A condition of the blood, characterized by an abnormally large amount of fibrin, as in many inflammatory diseases.

A diminution in the normal amount of fibrin present in the blood.

A fibrinous material exuded from the blood vessels in inflammation. In the process of healing it is either absorbed, or is converted into connective tissue binding the inflamed surfaces together. Lymph corpuscles (Anat.), finely granular nucleated cells, identical with the colorless blood corpuscles, present in the lym…

An albuminous body in blood serum, belonging to the group of globulins. See Fibrinoplastin.

A toxic alkaloid found occasionally associated with the peptones formed from fibrin by pepsinhydrochloric acid.