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[pantryslut]

Why would anybody ever name a drug "warfarin"?

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[stopword.livejournal.com]

Is it for the development of the "thingy"?

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

Nope, it's an anticoagulant (better known by its brand name Coumadin).

[wild-irises.livejournal.com]

I've always assumed it was a name chosen for its humor value by someone in the lab and then it got into the hands of the humorless ...

[redbird]

It appears to be a quasi-acronym: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF)

I don't know but I wish the republicans

[bucky-sinister.livejournal.com]

would stop smokin it!

[claudimp.livejournal.com]

Isn't warfarin used as a rat poison?

(Yeah, I know, go look it up, right? My new definition of slack -- too lazy to google.)

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

Yes. It's an anticoagulant, so people with heart disease take small doses to prevent blood clots/strokes/heart attacks. Large doses relative to body weight cause death from internal bleeding. The rats just OD easily because they're little, it's not a rat-specific poison.

[thette.livejournal.com]

This is the name origin I've heard.

[manomano.livejournal.com]

In honor of Lieutenant Warf, from the Enterprise.

[genderfur.livejournal.com]

ahh - beat me to it! I was going to say, "I think they misspelled it. Shouldn't it be worfarin?"

[innerdoggie.livejournal.com]

It's named after the famous Sapir-Warf hypothesis. Did you know that Americans have 100 different words for anti-coagulant?