antiplatelet
adjective, noun
antiplatelet is an adjective meaning “Working against or destroying blood platelets” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-P-L-A-T-E-L-E-T, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does antiplatelet mean?
adjective
- 1
Working against or destroying blood platelets.
noun
- 1
A drug that destroys blood platelets.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce antiplatelet?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-antiplatelet.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of antiplatelet
- antiplatelets plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is antiplatelet?
Antiplatelet appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 107,757th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Antiplatelet in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | antiplaquettaire |
| German | thrombozytenaggregationshemmend, gerinnungshemmend , Thrombozytenaggregationshemmer, Blutgerinnungshemmer, Gerinnungshemmer, TAH |
| Portuguese | antiplaquetas, antiplaqueta , antiplaquetário |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does antiplatelet come from?
From anti- + platelet.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).