thrombolytic
th rom boh li tik
- n a kind of pharmaceutical that can break up clots blocking the flow of blood to the heart muscle
- They are typically given after someone has suffered a heart attack or a thrombolytic stroke, in which a clot had lodged in one of the blood vessels of the brain.
- Genentech, Hennekens says, refused to participate in the international study, which compared TPA with streptokinase and a third thrombolytic called anistreplase, so a British-made .