coagulability test

coagulability test

[kō‚ag·yə·lə′bil·əd·ē test]

(pathology)

Any of several clinical tests of the ability of blood to coagulate, such as clot retraction time and quantification, prothrombin time, partial thromboplastin time, and platelet enumeration.

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