antihemophilic factor
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of antihemophilic factor
First recorded in 1945–50; anti- + hemophilic
Example Sentences
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The average per-child cost for antihemophilic factor was about $1.3 million over the time span covered by the study.
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One type of therapy, called antihemophilic factor, accounted for 98 percent of spending on children with hemophilia, or 41 percent of total pharmacy spending -- even though children treated with antihemophilic factor accounted for just 0.4 percent of all the children in the study.
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Antihemophilic factor is a protein that is essential to normal blood clotting and is lacking or deficient in persons having hemophilia A, the authors explained.
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