Crossword-Solution: FIBRIN
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| Fibrin | n. | A white, albuminous, 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. |
| Fibrin | n. | The white, albuminous mass remaining after washing lean beef or other meat with water until all coloring matter is removed; the fibrous portion of the muscle tissue; flesh fibrin. |
| Fibrin | n. | An albuminous body, resembling animal fibrin in composition, found in cereal grains and similar seeds; vegetable fibrin. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “FIBRIN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Blood coagulation protein | 1 answer |
| Blood-clotting protein that sounds like a bland breakfast cereal | 1 answer |
| CLOTTING of blood, fibrous insoluble protein formed during the | 1 answer |
| Coagulating protein | 1 answer |
| Coagulation protein | 1 answer |
| FIBROUS insoluble protein formed during the clotting of blood | 1 answer |
| Protein formed during blood clotting | 1 answer |
| Stringy protein to which platelets bind during coagulation | 1 answer |
| white insoluble elastic protein | 1 answer |
| BLOOD part | 5 answers |
| BLOOD, constituent of | 9 answers |
| coagulation | 12 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with FIBRIN (5)
The patient had been taking various preparations of potassium, and it was thought that his blood contained a deficiency of fibrin.
Pancreatic juice emulsifies fat, and we have just seen how greedily worms devour fat; it dissolves fibrin, and worms eat raw meat; it converts starch into grape-sugar with wonderful rapidity, and we shall presently show that the digestive fluid of worms acts on starch.
Thus it is not yet settled whether the fibrin is increased or diminished in this disease; and the differences which exist in the statements of different writers appear to be referable to the neglect of a critical examination and record of all the symptoms of the cases from which the blood was abstracted.
With such data we could settle such important questions as whether the increase of fibrin in scurvy was invariably dependent upon some local inflammation.
The other quaternary compounds performing the same functions as albumen--the gluten of cereals, the fibrin of blood, the casein of cheese and the legumin of chickpeas--undergo a similar modification, in varying degrees.
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Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1995–2000).