the enzymic conversion of fibrin to soluble products. [ < fibrino-comb. form + lysisn., after French fibrinolyse (A. Dastre 1893, in Arch. de Physiol. norm. et path. 5th Ser. V. 661).]
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1907 Jrnl. Physiol.35 Suppl. p. xiii If the carefully washed fibrin is placed into chloroform instead of chloroform-water..fibrinolysis occurs all the same.
1949 H. W. Florey et al. Antibiotics I. ix. 383 Neter..reported that actinomycin inhibited fibrinolysis.