1. protease produced in the kidney that converts plasminogen to plasmin and so initiates fibrinolysis; [syn: plasminogen activator, urokinase]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
plasminogen activator
n 1: protease produced in the kidney that converts plasminogen
to plasmin and so initiates fibrinolysis [syn: plasminogen
activator, urokinase]