Acute phase reaction/Definition

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Acute phase reaction [r]: 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.

This definition is at least in part based on: Anonymous (2024), Acute phase reaction (English). Medical Subject Headings. U.S. National Library of Medicine.