Acute-Phase Reaction

Medical Dictionary -> Acute-Phase Reaction

Acute-Phase Reaction


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.


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