Pathologic Function
clonal expansion
clon·al ex·pan·sion
Definitions related to clonal expansion:
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An explosive increase in the number of fighter cells released by the immune system to fight a threat in the body.Harvard Dictionary of Health TermsHarvard Medical Publishing, 2011
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Multiplication or reproduction by cell division of a population of identical cells descended from a single progenitor. In immunology, may refer to the clonal proliferation of cells responsive to a specific antigen as part of an immune response.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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