Acute phase reaction
Definition: An early local inflammatory reaction to insult or injury that consists of fever, an increase in inflammatory humoral factors, and an increased synthesis by hepatocytes of a number of proteins or glycoproteins usually found in the plasma.
Synonyms (terms occurring on more labels are shown first): acute phase reaction, acute phase reactions, acute-phase response, acute-phase reaction, acute phase response
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