: a clotting factor that activates factor VIII and whose deficiency is associated with hemophilia
called also Christmas factor
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The standard care for severe hemophilia B is lifelong intravenous infusions of factor IX concentrate, sometimes weekly or even more frequently.
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Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 22 July 2022
For example, factor IX clotting factor is not harmful at high levels, and people with haemophilia B already inject themselves with huge amounts of it.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 25 Apr. 2012
Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 22 July 2022
For example, factor IX clotting factor is not harmful at high levels, and people with haemophilia B already inject themselves with huge amounts of it.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 25 Apr. 2012
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factor IX
noun
: a clotting factor that activates factor VIII and whose absence is associated with hemophilia B
called also autoprothrombin II, Christmas factor
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