How to Use blood thinner in a Sentence

blood thinner

noun
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  • Doctors put him on blood thinners and warned him not to take any chances.
    — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • With too much blood thinner, patients can bleed to death.
    — Ellen Gabler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2021
  • He was put on an IV drip of blood thinners and told to make calls to his family and friends.
    — Ali Lerman, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2023
  • Pradaxa is the first blood thinner for children that can be taken by mouth.
    — Chiara Vercellone, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2021
  • This is less for pain and more for heart attacks and strokes, which demand a fast blood thinner.
    — Erik Vance, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2014
  • At first, the nurse thought the pain medicine was causing confusion in Williams, who pushed for a CT scan and a blood thinner.
    — Vanessa Hua, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Apr. 2018
  • She was treated with platelet infusions and a blood thinner, but had a bleed in her brain the next day.
    — Matthew Herper, STAT, 13 Apr. 2021
  • The teen was given blood thinners to quickly restore blood flow to his brain.
    — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Major blood thinners and diabetes drugs made the cut for the initial round.
    — Mariana Socal, STAT, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Twice-daily injections of a blood thinner took care of Colton's blood clot.
    — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 29 Apr. 2022
  • But docs found a clotting disorder and put him on blood thinners.
    — Marty Munson, Men's Health, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Bristol-Meyers, maker of the blood thinner Plavix, is based in New York.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Aspirin is best known as a pain reliever but is also a blood thinner that can reduce the chance of blood clots.
    — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2021
  • So in December 2011, her doctor put her on a blood thinner.
    — John Fauber and Coulter Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Price explains that the product is baited food laced with warfarin, a blood thinner used for humans that is lethal to hogs.
    — Aaron Sidder, Smithsonian, 24 Feb. 2017
  • Drugs like the blood thinner Xarelto and eye treatment Eylea are reliable cash cows.
    — Charley Grant, WSJ, 22 June 2019
  • As a result he was told by his doctor to stop taking his blood thinner, warfarin, and switch to a less potent medicine.
    — Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2022
  • The blood thinner heparin is derived from pig intestines.
    — Time, 20 Oct. 2021
  • At least two of these patients were taking some form of blood thinner, and blood thinners can cause bleeding even when there is no lecanemab.
    — Gary Stix, Scientific American, 27 Jan. 2023
  • According to Wood, the treatment for AFib is blood thinners to prevent clots from forming.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 5 July 2023
  • Aspirin is a blood thinner and can help head off heart attacks and strokes by preventing clots from forming in the blood vessels that lead to the heart or brain.
    — Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Doctors may also treat ischemic stroke with other medicines, such as blood thinners, as well as surgery to remove the clot.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 22 Jan. 2024
  • From warfarin, Link derives a drug called Coumadin, which is used as a blood thinner to treat heart patients and prevent blood clotting.
    — Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 July 2018
  • Doctors also should be cautious when prescribing the drug to patients on blood thinners, the FDA said.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 6 July 2023
  • His doctor began treating the man with a blood thinner, 15 mg of rivaroxaban two times a day.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
  • But today, most patients are given blood thinners for life after the very first major clot.
    — Sadia Rafiquddin, STAT, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The researchers found that aspirin, commonly used as a blood thinner in humans and sometimes in cats, was able to stop platelets from clotting.
    — Sumeet Kulkarni, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2022
  • She was treated with a blood thinner and developed a hemorrhage, which cleared up.
    — John Fauber and Coulter Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Katie uses a syringe to extract a dose of the Heparin blood thinner, then injects it through a valve into the solution bag.
    — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Mazzara continued on the blood thinner for a month after his release from the hospital in May.
    — Maggie Fox, CNN, 26 Aug. 2020

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