| A | B |
|---|
| anticoagulants | agents that inhibit blood clotting |
| coagulants | agents that promote, accelerate, or make possible coagulation |
| coagulation (clotting) factors | series of 12 factors that are essential to normal blood clotting |
| hemostatics | agents that enhance clot formation and reduce bleeding |
| parenteral | adminsitration route other than the alimentary canal (IM, IV, subcu) |
| platelet aggregation | clumping together of platelets; part of a sequential mechanism leading to clot formation |
| systemic | pertaining to or affecting the body as a whole |
| thrombolytics (fibrinolytics) | agents that dissolve blood clots |
| thrombosis | abnormal formation or presence of a blood clot within a blood vessel |
