(Medicine) protein produced by a fetus during development and is found in amniotic fluid and the mother's bloodstream; protein produced by the liver cells; protein found in the flow of blood of men suffering from non seminomatous testicular cancer
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Afp Definition from Business & Finance Dictionaries & Glossaries
United Capital Corporation
Exchange: AMEX
Manages and leases real estate properties; And manufactures and sells antenna systems, knitted wire products, transformers and resilient vinyl flooring.
Exchange: AMEX
Manages and leases real estate properties; And manufactures and sells antenna systems, knitted wire products, transformers and resilient vinyl flooring.
Afp Definition from Government Dictionaries & Glossaries
Approval for Full Production; Armed Forces of the Philippines
Afp Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries
Automatic Floating Point
Appletalk Filling Protocol
Air filled porosity; the air capacity of a compost.
: Air filled porosity; the air capacity of a compost.
Afp Definition from Computer & Internet Dictionaries & Glossaries
Flowchart Symbol Palette
Papyrus Document Storage Format
Prismo Graphics ActiveFile Proxy
IBM Transactional Data Format (Advanced Function Print) (AS400 computer)
Gangsters Game File (unverified)
Papyrus Document Storage Format
Prismo Graphics ActiveFile Proxy
IBM Transactional Data Format (Advanced Function Print) (AS400 computer)
Gangsters Game File (unverified)
Advanced Function Presentation
Advanced Function Presentation [IBM] +
Afp Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
AFP may refer to:
Media
- Agence France-Presse, a news agency
- American Family Publishers, a magazine subscription company
- Advertiser funded programming, a television funding model
- American Family Physician, a semimonthly, peer-reviewed journal of the American Academy of Family Physicians
- Australian Family Physician, a peer-reviewed journal of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
- American Free Press, a weekly newspaper
- America's Funniest People, an American television reality show from the 1990s
- , a 2002 American television reality show
- AFP (TV series), a 2011 Australian factual television series
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Afp Definition from Medicine Dictionaries & Glossaries
Alpha-fetoprotein. A protein normally produced by a developing fetus. AFP levels are usually undetectable in the blood of healthy nonpregnant adults. An elevated level of AFP suggests the presence of either a primary liver cancer or germ cell tumor.
A Service of the National Cancer Institute.
see Alpha-fetoprotein .
Alpha-fetoprotein
Alphafetoprotein
alpha-fetoprotein
A protein excreted by the fetus into the amniotic fluid and from there into the mother's bloodstream through the placenta.
Afp Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
Noun
1. an abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly)
(synonym) alpha fetoprotein, alpha foetoprotein
(hypernym) fetoprotein, foetoprotein
