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GRAFT REJECTION

Specialty Definition: GRAFT REJECTION

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Health

An immune response with both cellular and humoral components, directed against an allogeneic transplant, whose tissue antigens are not compatible with those of the recipient. (references)

Medicine

The process whereby a host rejects tissues or cells derived from another organism. The mechanism of rejection is usually due to the production of specific antibodies against the new tissue which contains antigenic sites. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Crosswords: GRAFT REJECTION

Specialty definitions using "GRAFT REJECTION": CyclosporinsHistocompatibility Antigens Class I, Host vs Graft ReactionImmunotherapyLymphocyte TransformationMinor Histocompatibility Antigens, Minor Histocompatibility Loci. (references)

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Commercial Usage: GRAFT REJECTION

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Books

  • New Perspectives in Antibody-Mediated Graft Rejection (Medical Intelligence Unit) (reference)

  • The Mechanism and Management of Corneal Graft Rejection (reference)

  • Transplantation : approaches to graft rejection : proceedings of the XVIII Annual Scientific Symposium of the American Red Cross, Washington, DC, April 28-30, 1986 (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Non-Fiction Usage: GRAFT REJECTION

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Health

Determine the biologic differences among groups of patients that increase the likelihood of graft rejection. (references)

One might expect this condition to trigger a graft rejection,but it does not because the uterus is an "immunologically privileged" site where immune responses are subdued. (references)

NIAID-supported testing of a newly developed immunosuppressive agent, T1OB9, which was found to reverse graft rejection more effectively, more rapidly, and at lower cost than standard therapy. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expression: GRAFT REJECTION

Expression using "GRAFT REJECTION": host vs. graft rejection. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: GRAFT REJECTION

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

Danish

  

afstødning. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

afstoting van transplantaat. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kudossiirrännäisen hylkiminen. (various references)

   

French

  

rejet d'une greffe. (various references)

   

German

  

Abstossung (repellency, repulsion). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

απόρριψη μοσχεύματος. (various references)

   

Italian

  

rigetto (rejection). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aftgray ejectionray

   

Portuguese

  

rejeição de enxerto. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

rechazo (blowback, disavowal, non-acceptance, rebound, rebuff, recoil, rejection, repulse). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

transplantatavstötningsreaktion, rejektion, avstötningsreaktion. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: GRAFT REJECTION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-f-g-i-j-n-o-r-r-t-t"

-3 letters: interjector, interrogate, retroacting, teratogenic.

-4 letters: integrator, intergraft, recreating, recreation, refracting, refraction, retracting, retraction, retreating, trajecting, trajection.

-5 letters: argentite, careering, carnotite, certainer, cigarette, cratering, facetting, factoring, ferreting, fettering, foreigner, forgetter, fornicate, generator, integrate, interface, interject, introject, negotiate, orangerie, orientate, recoinage, recrating, rectorate, refecting, refection, reinforce, rejecting, rejection, retearing, retorting, retracing, teratogen, terracing.

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

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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