Acute-Phase Reaction |
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| Acute Phase Reaction; Acute Phase State; Acute-Phase Response; Reaction, Acute Phase; Response, Acute Phase; State, Acute-Phase | |
| 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. | |