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Acute-Phase Reaction

Medical 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.
Guide Notes:	note category: in presence of a dis, use /etiol, not /compl
Previously Indexed:	Acute Disease (1968-1986),Inflammation (1966-1986)

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