A blood protein that serves as an enzyme that breaks fibrinogen into fibrin.

From the BioTech Dictionary at http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/. For further information see the BioTech homenode.

Throm"bin (?), n. [See Thrombus.] (Physiol. Chem.)

The fibrin ferment which produces the formation of fibrin from fibrinogen.

 

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