noun
- A synthetic anticoagulant drug used to prevent blood clots; an early form of warfarin.
Usage: medical/pharmaceutical; largely historical; warfarin has largely replaced it in clinical use
Examples
- Dicoumarin was one of the first oral anticoagulants developed for clinical use.
- The drug dicoumarin works by inhibiting vitamin K-dependent clotting factors.
- Patients on dicoumarin required regular blood tests to monitor their clotting time.
- Dicoumarin has been largely superseded by warfarin in modern anticoagulation therapy.