Biologically Active Substance
factor V
Subclass of:
Blood Coagulation Factor; Protein Precursors
Definitions related to factor v:
  • Heat- and storage-labile plasma glycoprotein which accelerates the conversion of prothrombin to thrombin in blood coagulation. Factor V accomplishes this by forming a complex with factor Xa, phospholipid, and calcium (prothrombinase complex). Deficiency of factor V leads to Owren's disease.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • (coagulation factor v) Heat and storage labile plasma glycoprotein which accelerates the conversion of prothrombin to thrombin in blood coagulation by forming a complex with factor Xa, phospholipid, and calcium (prothrombinase complex); deficiency of factor V leads to Owrens disease.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
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