alpha-fetoprotein

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Definition of alpha-fetoprotein in English Turkish dictionary

alfa fetoprotein

alfa-fetoprotein

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Definition of alpha-fetoprotein in English English dictionary

{i} (Medicine) AFP, protein produced by a fetus during development and is found in amniotic fluid and the mother's bloodstream; protein produced by the liver cells; protein found in the flow of blood of men suffering from non seminomatous testicular cancer

AFP

an abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly)

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alphafetoprotein

{i} (Medicine) protein produced by a fetus during development and is found in amniotic fluid and the mother's bloodstream