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winkle(2) (iou)



winkle verb1 intrans. dial. rare. L18.
[from WINK verb1 + -LE3.]
Emit light intermittently; twinkle.

alpha-fetoproteins (medicine)


alpha-fetoproteins
Increases in maternal blood during Pregnancy and, when detected by amniocentesis, is an important indicator of open neural tube defects and is also used as a tumour marker in adults with hepatocellular carcinoma, beta-fetoproteins, although a foetal liver protein, has been detected in adult patients with liver disease, gamma-fetoproteins occurs in various neoplasms.

See: fetoglobulins.