thromboplastin
noun
thromboplastin is a noun meaning “A protease that converts prothrombin to thrombin during the clotting of blood” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-H-R-O-M-B-O-P-L-A-S-T-I-N, and it appears about once in every 44 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of thromboplastin is thromboplastins.
What does thromboplastin mean?
noun
- 1
A protease that converts prothrombin to thrombin during the clotting of blood.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of thromboplastin
- thromboplastins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is thromboplastin?
Thromboplastin appears about once in every 44 million words in written English, the 204,233rd 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).
Thromboplastin in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense enzyme:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | thromboplastine |
| Spanish | tromboplastina |
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 thromboplastin come from?
From thrombo- + plastin.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).