Usually means: Substance in leeches preventing coagulation.
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  1. hirudine: Wordnik
  2. hirudine: Wiktionary
  3. Hirudine, hirudine: Dictionary.com
  4. Hirudine: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. hirudine: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Hirudine: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. Hirudine: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. hirudine: FreeDictionary.org
  9. hirudine: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hirudine)

adjective:  (zoology) Of or relating to the leeches.
noun:  Alternative form of hirudin [(biochemistry) A peptide, obtained from the salivary glands of leeches, that is used as an anticoagulant.]

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