A white, albuminous, fibrous substance, formed in the coagulation of the blood either by decomposition of fibrinogen, or from the union of fibrinogen and paraglobulin which exist separately in the blood.
It is not yet certain what is the nature of the final reaction between fibrinogen and thrombin.
Serum, for instance, very quickly loses its power of inducing clotting in fibrinogen solutions.
Fibrinogen is present in living blood dissolved in the plasma; it is also present in such fluids as hydrocele or pericardial effusions, which, though capable of clotting, do not clot spontaneously.
The globulins present are named fibrinogen and serum-globulin; as its name implies, the chief physiological property of fibrinogen is that it can give rise to fibrin, the solid substance formed when blood clots.
The last step in the change is the action of thrombin upon fibrinogen to form fibrin, and the clot is complete.
Fibrinogen is insoluble in water, but soluble in salt solutions; it has three different coagulation temperatures, 56 deg.
Fibrinogen occurs in the blood plasma, and is changed by a ferment into fibrin, to which the clotting of blood is due.
Arrian, in his order of march and battle against the Alani.
It consisted in ten military engines of the largest, and fifty-five of a smaller size; but all of which, either in an oblique or horizontal manner, discharged stones and darts with irresistible violence.
The abuses that arose caused by the edict of Hadrian, which fixed the age at which that honor could be attained.
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