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Anticoagulant medication

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Medicines to reduce clotting in the blood vessels.

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Blood vessels

Hollow tubes that transport blood throughout the body; includes arteries, veins, and capillaries.
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A substance that helps prevent blood from clotting.
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Drugs that diminish the blood's ability to clot. Anticoagulants are sometimes called blood thinners even though they do not thin the blood. Commonly used anticoagulant drugs…

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