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hypergammaglobulinemia
(redirected from monoclonal hypergammaglobulinemias)

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hypergammaglobulinemia /hy·per·gam·ma·glob·u·lin·emia/ (-gam″ah-glob″u-lĭ-ne´me-ah) increased gamma globulins in the blood.hypergammaglobuline´mic
monoclonal hypergammaglobulinemias  plasma cell dyscrasias.

hy·per·gam·ma·glob·u·li·ne·mi·a (hpr-gm-glby-l-nm-)
n.
An increased concentration of gamma globulins in the plasma, such as is frequently observed in chronic infectious diseases.

hypergammaglobulinemia (hī´pur-gam´glob´ūlinē´mē),
n an excess of gammaglobulin in the blood. It occurs in chronic granulomatous inflammations, chronic bacterial infections, liver disease, multiple myeloma, lymphomas, and dysproteinemias.

hypergammaglobulinemia
increased gamma globulins in the blood.

mink hypergammaglobulinemia
monoclonal hypergammaglobulinemia
an increased level of homogeneous immunoglobulin molecules of a single specificity in the blood following proliferation of a clone of immunoglobulin-producing B lymphocytes. See also gammopathy.


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