Definition of paraprotein in English:
paraprotein
noun ˌparəˈprəʊtiːnˌperəˈprōtēn
Medicine A protein found in the blood only as a result of cancer or other disease.
Example sentencesExamples
- Efforts to eradicate or reduce the inhibitor titer in this patient were not successful despite the use of plasmapheresis to control the paraprotein.
- An endogenous paraprotein was not detected by immunofixation electrophoresis.
- Three years after chemotherapy, the Hodgkin disease was in remission, while the paraprotein persisted.
- We present a case of a 48-year-old woman with a history of autoimmune hemolytic anemia and Graves disease who presented with hepatosplenomegaly and a gamma-heavy-chain paraprotein.
- It does not appear to be a classic heterophile antibody, nor is it a paraprotein.