English

Verb

defibrinate ‎(third-person singular simple present defibrinates, present participle defibrinating, simple past and past participle defibrinated)

1. (transitive, medicine) (of blood) To remove fibrin from; to deprive of fibrin.
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Folio Society 2008, p. 116:

     Van Helsing turning to me, said:— ‘He is so young and strong and of blood so pure that we need not defibrinate it.’