thrombolytic
adjective, noun
thrombolytic is an adjective meaning “Of, pertaining to, or causing thrombolysis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-H-R-O-M-B-O-L-Y-T-I-C and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 20 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does thrombolytic mean?
adjective
- 1
Of, pertaining to, or causing thrombolysis.
noun
- 1
Any drug that causes thrombolysis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce thrombolytic?
Thrombolytic has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of thrombolytic
- more thrombolytic comparative
- most thrombolytic superlative
- thrombolytics plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is thrombolytic?
Thrombolytic appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 134,976th 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).
Thrombolytic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | trombolítico |
| Spanish | trombolítico |
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 thrombolytic come from?
From thrombolysis + tic. By surface analysis, thrombo- + -lytic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).