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fibrinolytic

adjective, noun

fibrinolytic is an adjective meaning “Of, pertaining to, or producing fibrinolysis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-B-R-I-N-O-L-Y-T-I-C, and it appears about once in every 32 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does fibrinolytic mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Of, pertaining to, or producing fibrinolysis.

noun

  1. 1

    A substance or drug that produces fibrinolysis.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of fibrinolytic

  • more fibrinolytic comparative
  • most fibrinolytic superlative
  • fibrinolytics plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is fibrinolytic?

Fibrinolytic appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th 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).

Fibrinolytic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense of, pertaining to, or producing fibrinolysis:

LanguageWords
Portuguesefibrinolítico

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 fibrinolytic come from?

From fibrino- + -lytic.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).