What are anticoagulants

What are anticoagulants? What are the practical applications of anticoagulants, such as heparin, in Medicine?

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Anticoagulants are the substances that block the clotting reactions and therefore stop the process of the coagulation. Ordinarily there are anticoagulants which are circulating in plasma as under normal conditions blood should be kept fluid. In Medicine anticoagulants such as heparin are used in the surgeries where tissue injuries made by the surgical act could trigger the undesirable systemic clotting of the blood. They are also used in order to prevent the formation of thrombus inside the blood vessels of patients facing the increased thrombotic risk.

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