clot buster
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- noun
- /klɑt ˈbʌstər/
- Specialized
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disolvente de coágulos
- The effectiveness of clot busters hinges on timely treatment after the onset of heart attack symptoms.
- give a clot buster
Examples
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And it essentially it's like an extreme like blood clot Buster, like a blood thinner essentially.
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If administered quickly, clot busters can save patients from serious heart damage during a heart attack.
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Doctors often recommend clot busters to dissolve blood clots that can block the heart's blood flow.
Synonyms
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A medical treatment that breaks down blood clots in blood vessels
A drug that breaks up blood clots to restore blood flow during a heart attack or stroke
A drug that breaks up blood clots to open blocked blood vessels
Use medicine to break up blood clots that cause heart attack or stroke
Antonyms
- Specialized
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Something that makes a liquid like blood or milk become thick and form clots
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Morphology
The meaning 'a drug that dissolves blood clots' is directly and compositionally derived from 'clot' (a coagulated lump) + 'buster' (a thing that breaks or defeats). The productive English compound pattern X-buster (e.g., 'crime-buster', 'ghostbuster') signals an agent or tool that removes X, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The noun clot buster comes from a simple picture: the word buster means 'one who breaks', so a clot buster is a medicine that 'busts' a clot, a lump of blood that blocks a blood vessel. That's why the term means 'a drug used to break up blood clots and let blood flow again'.