extrahepatically

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

extrahepatic +‎ -ally

Adverb[edit]

extrahepatically (not comparable)

  1. (anatomy) Outside the liver.
    • 2015 August 4, Saliha Esenboga et al., “CVID Associated with Systemic Amyloidosis”, in Case Reports in Immunology[1], volume 2015, →DOI:
      SAA are acute phase proteins in the form of apolipoproteins associated with specific high-density lipoprotein (HDL), and they are expressed extrahepatically in the absence of HDL.