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UK
/wˈɔːfəɹˌɪn/
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NOUN
- an anticoagulant (trade name Coumadin) use to prevent and treat a thrombus or embolus
How To Use warfarin In A Sentence
- Around half of the study patients had atrial fibrillation as their primary indication for warfarin.
- Participants stopped taking warfarin for at least one day and received vitamin K by oral or subcutaneous administration.
- Large amounts of garlic can increase the anticoagulant effects of pharmaceutical blood thinners (warfarin, high dose aspirin).
- I take a range of medication, including atenolol, amlodipine, warfarin, co-codamol and atorvastatin. The Sun
- Poisoning rats with warfarin reduces the damage but is costly and possibly damaging to the environment.
- One doctor reaches for a ‘decent dose of warfarin and digoxin no hesitation at all’ to treat patients with atrial fibrillation because of the death of a grandfather.
- She was given the anticoagulant warfarin, but suffered an adverse reaction and was switched to another drug, Phenindione.
- Mammals ingesting coumarins from plants such as clover can suffer massive internal bleeding, a property that led to the development of rodenticides such as warfarin.
- Drug interactions have been shown to occur with alprazolam, warfarin, theophylline, propranolol, and tricyclic antidepressants.
- Chinese patients are reportedly more sensitive than Caucasians to the anticoagulant effect of warfarin.