n :  a plasma protein produced in the liver in the presence of vitamin K and converted into thrombin by the action of various activators (as thromboplastin) in the clotting of blood pro*throm*bic adj 
 
 
 
Similar sounding terms:  par·a·thor·mone 
 
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