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Medical Definition of van den Bergh reaction
: the chemical reaction that takes place in the van den Bergh test when bilirubin is present in the blood
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Biographical Note for van den bergh reaction
Van den Bergh
, Albert Abraham Hijmans
(1869–1943), Dutch physician. Van den Bergh introduced in 1913 a test for the presence of bilirubin in the blood.
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