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cryoprecipitate

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cryoprecipitate /cryo·pre·cip·i·tate/ (-pre-sip´ĭ-tāt) any precipitate that results from cooling, sometimes specifically the one rich in coagulation factor VIII obtained from cooling of blood plasma.
cry·o·pre·cip·i·tate (kr-pr-sp-tt, -tt)
n.
A precipitate that forms when soluble material is cooled, especially a precipitate rich in factor VIII that is formed when normal blood plasma is cooled.

cryoprecipitate
[-prisip′itāt]
1 any precipitate formed on cooling of a solution.
2 a preparation rich in factor VIII needed to restore normal coagulation in hemophilia. It is collected from fresh human plasma that has been frozen and thawed.

cryoprecipitate
any precipitate that results from cooling.

cryoprecipitate
'Cryo' Transfusion medicine A product derived from a unit of whole blood, which has a volume of 15 ml and provides 80 units of factor VIII:C procoagulant–for hemophilia A, factor VIII:vWF–von Willebrand's disease, factor XIII, fibronectin, fibrinogen–for DIC, dysfibrinogenemia


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