HLA
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HLA
abbr. human leukocyte antigen
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HLA
human leukocyte antigen: any of a complex of genetically determined antigens, occurring on the surface of almost every human cell, by which one person's cells can be distinguished from another's and histocompatibility established.
[1970–75]
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