| EA | 1) Esophageal Atresia Types 1. Esophageal Atresia with Dis... |
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| anti-HBe | antibody to hepatitis B early antigen |
| DEAFF | detection of early antigen fluorescent foci |
| EA | early antigen; educational age; egg albumin; electric affinity; electrical activity; electroacupunct... |
| EA-D | early antigen, diffuse |
| early-phase response | Prompt onset of symptoms following an antigenic stimulus. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| early posttraumatic epilepsy | Seizures beginning within one week after severe head injury. (05 Mar 2000) |
| early reaction | Local or generalised response that begins within a few minutes to about an hour after exposure to an antigen to which the individual has been sensitised. See: skin test, wheal-and-erythema reaction. Synonym: early reaction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| early receptor potential | A voltage arising across the eye from a charge displacement within photoreceptor pigment, in response to an intense flash of light. (05 Mar 2000) |
| early region | <molecular biology> Part of a viral genome in which early genes genes that are transcribed and expressed early during infection of a cell are clustered. (18 Nov 1997) |
| early seizure | A seizure occurring within one week after craniocerebral trauma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| early seral species | <plant biology> Shrubs, such as ceanothus, and hardwoods, usually in tree form, such as red alder, bitter cherry and big leaf maple. These species start growing in natural succession soon after a disturbance (fire or logging). (05 Dec 1998) |
| early stage breast cancer | <oncology> Cancer is confined to the breast and has not spread to other sites in the body. (16 Dec 1997) |
| early syphilis | Primary, secondary, or early latent syphilis, before any tertiary manifestations have appeared. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acetone-insoluble antigen | A diphosphatidyl glycerol that is found in the membrane of Treponema pallidum and is the antigen detected by the Wasserman test for syphilis. (18 Nov 1997) |
| allogeneic antigen | Genetic variations of the same antigens within a given species. (05 Mar 2000) |
| antigen | Virus coded cell surface antigens that appear soon after the infection of a cell by virus, but before virus replication has begun. See: early gene. (18 Nov 1997) |
| antigen-antibody complex | The complex formed by the binding of antigen and antibody molecules. The deposition of large antigen-antibody complexes leading to tissue damage causes immune complex diseases. If the antigen is polyvalent the complex may be insoluble. Immune complexes activate complement through the classical pathway. See: glomerulonephritis, Arthus reaction, type III hypersensitivity. (12 Dec 1998) |
| antigen-antibody reaction | The phenomenon, occurring in vitro or in vivo, of antibody combining with antigen of the type that stimulated the formation of the antibody, thereby resulting in agglutination, precipitation, complement fixation, greater susceptibility to ingestion and destruction by phagocytes, or neutralization of exotoxin. See: skin test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| antigen-binding site | <immunology> In immune network theory, an idiotope, an antigenic site of an antibody that is responsible for that antibody binding to an antigenic determinant (epitope). Also used of the site on a ligand molecule to which a cell surface receptor binds. (18 Nov 1997) |