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Allograft

Definition: Allograft

Allograft

Noun

1. Tissue or organ transplanted from a donor of the same species but different genetic makeup; recipient's immune system must be suppressed to prevent rejection of the graft.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Specialty Definitions: Allograft

DomainDefinitions

Health

An organ or tissue transplant between two humans. (references)

Medicine

A graft of tissue obtained from the body of another animal of the same species but with genotype differing from that of the recipient ; tissue graft from a donor of one genotype to a host of another genotype, host and donor being members of the same species. host and donor are called "allogenic" Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Allograft

Synonym: homograft (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Allograft

Specialty definitions using "allograft": graft-versus-host diseaseHistocompatibility AntigensT-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Allograft

DomainTitle

Books

  • Cardiac Allograft Rejection (reference)

  • Cardiac Reconstructions With Allograft Valves (reference)

  • Celle medieret lymfolyse (CML) hos mennesket : i relation til HLA antigener og allograft rejektion (reference)

  • Cytokines in Reproduction: Molecular Mechanisms of Fetal Allograft Survival (Medical Intelligence Unit Series) (reference)

  • Immunology of the Lung Allograft (Medical Intelligence Unit) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Allograft

"Allograft" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Allograft" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%1882,615

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Allograft

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  allograft

34

  allograft bone

6

  allograft arthroscopic arthroscopy biomaterial cartilage cell chondrocyte collagen device elute eluting engineer equipment factor growth handheld hyaline hyaluron implant instrument orthopharm osteochondr polymer soft stem system tendon tissue tissue transplant viscoelastic

4

  allograft pulmonic valve

4

  allograft dermal matrix graft

3

  allograft osteochondral

3

  allograft dermal graft matrix specialist

3

  allograft dermal matrix graft expert

3

  acl allograft

2

  allograft definition

2

  acl allograft reconstruction

2

  allograft resource

2

  allograft autograft vs

2

  allograft tissue

2

  allograft infection

2
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Modern Translations: Allograft

Language Translations for "allograft"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

allotransplantation (allogenic graft, allogenic transplant, homoeotransplantat, homograft, homologous graft), homotransplantat (allogenic graft, allogenic transplant, homoeotransplantat, homograft, homologous graft), homolog transplantation (allogenic graft, allogenic transplant, homoeotransplantat, homograft, homologous graft). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

isotransplantaat (allogenic graft, allogenic transplant, homoeotransplantat, homograft, homologous graft), homoio-transplantatie (allogenic graft, allogenic transplant, homoeotransplantat, homograft, homologous graft), homoeotransplantaat (allogenic graft, allogenic transplant, homoeotransplantat, homograft, homologous graft), homoïotransplantaat (allogenic graft, allogenic transplant, homoeotransplantat, homograft, homologous graft), homeotransplantaat (allogenic graft, allogenic transplant, homoeotransplantat, homograft, homologous graft). (various references)

   

French

  

allogreffe (allogenic graft, allogenic transplant), homotransplant (allogenic graft, allogenic transplant), homogreffe (allogenic graft, allogenic transplant), greffe homologue (allogenic graft, allogenic transplant), greffe allogénique (allogenic graft, allogenic transplant). (various references)

   

German

  

allogenes Transplantat (allogenic graft, allogenic transplant, homoeotransplantat, homograft, homologous graft), Homotransplantat (allogenic graft, allogenic transplant, homoeotransplantat, homograft, homologous graft), homoplastisches Transplantat (allogenic graft, allogenic transplant, homoeotransplantat, homograft, homologous graft), homologes Transplantat (allogenic graft, allogenic transplant, homoeotransplantat, homograft, homologous graft), Homoiotransplantat (allogenic graft, allogenic transplant, homoeotransplantat, homograft, homologous graft), Homograft (allogenic graft, allogenic transplant, homoeotransplantat, homograft, homologous graft). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ομοιομόσχευμα (allogenic graft, allogenic transplant, homoeotransplantat, homograft, homologous graft). (various references)

   

Italian

  

trapianto omoplastico (allogenic graft, allogenic transplant, homoeotransplantat, homograft, homologous graft), trapianto omologo (allogenic graft, allogenic transplant, homoeotransplantat, homograft, homologous graft), omotrapianto (allogenic graft, allogenic transplant, homoeotransplantat, homograft, homologous graft), omoinnesto (allogenic graft, allogenic transplant, homoeotransplantat, homograft, homologous graft). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

allograftay

   

Portuguese

  

homotransplante (allogenic graft, allogenic transplant, homoeotransplantat, homograft, homologous graft). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

trasplante alogénico (allogenic graft, allogenic transplant, homoeotransplantat, homograft, homologous graft), transplante homologo (allogenic graft, allogenic transplant, homoeotransplantat, homograft, homologous graft), homoinjerto (allogenic graft, allogenic transplant, homoeotransplantat, homograft, homologous graft), donación alogénica (allogenic graft, allogenic transplant, homoeotransplantat, homograft, homologous graft). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Allograft

Derivations

Words beginning with "allograft": allografted, allografting, allografts. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Allograft

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-f-g-l-l-o-r-t"

-3 letters: afloat, aortal, floral, forgat.

-4 letters: agora, algal, algor, allot, aloft, altar, aorta, argal, argol, argot, artal, atoll, fagot, fatal, float, flora, flota, gator, gloat, goral, graal, graft, groat, largo, loral, ratal, talar, tolar, troll.

-5 letters: afar, agar, alar, alfa, alga, alto, fall, farl, faro, fart, flag, flat, flog, foal, fora, fort, frag, frat.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-f-g-l-l-o-r-t"
 

+1 letter: allografts.

 

+2 letters: allografted.

 

+3 letters: allografting.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Allograft


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 6C 6C 6F 67 72 61 66 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101100 01101100 01101111 01100111 01110010 01100001 01100110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#108 &#108 &#111 &#103 &#114 &#97 &#102 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006C 006C 006F 0067 0072 0061 0066 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

357878817384677286

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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