Histocompatibility

Definition: Histocompatibility

Histocompatibility

Noun

1. Condition in which the cells of one tissue can survive in the presence of cells of another tissue; "a successful graft or translplant requires a high degree of histocompatibility".

Specialty Definitions: Histocompatibility

Domain	Definitions
Health	The degree of antigenic similarity between the tissues of different individuals, which determines the acceptance or rejection of allografts. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Histocompatibility

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Histocompatibility is the property of having the same, or mostly the same, alleles of a set of genes called the major histocompatibility complex. These genes are expressed in most tissues as antigens, to which the immune system makes antibodies. The immune system at first makes antibodies to all sorts of antigens, including those it has never been exposed to, but stops making them to antigens present in the body. If the body is exposed to foreign antigens, as by getting a tissue graft, it attacks the foreign material unless it is histocompatible.

A similar system exists in many plants; its purpose is not to reject grafts, but to prevent inbreeding. Pollen from a plant sharing a histocompatibility gene with the female either fails to grow or dies soon after germinating.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Histocompatibility."

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Crosswords: Histocompatibility

Specialty definitions using "histocompatibility": Adenovirus E3 Proteins, Antibodies, Neoplasm, Antigens, CD4, Antigens, CD8, Antilymphocyte Serum ♦ CD4 antigen, CD4 glycoprotein, CD4 molecule, CD4 protein, CD8 antigen, CD8 glycoprotein, CD8 molecule, CD8 protein ♦ DNA Probes, HLA ♦ Genes, MHC Class I, Genes, MHC Class II ♦ Haplotypes, Histocompatibility Antigens, Histocompatibility Antigens Class I, Histocompatibility Antigens Class II, HLA Antigens, HLA-A Antigens, HLA-A1 Antigen, HLA-A2 Antigen, HLA-A3 Antigen, HLA-B Antigens, HLA-B27 Antigen, HLA-B35 Antigen, HLA-B7 Antigen, HLA-B8 Antigen, HLA-C Antigens ♦ Interferon Type II, Interleukin-4 ♦ Killer Cells, Lymphokine-Activated ♦ Langerhans Cells, Lymphocyte Culture Test, Mixed ♦ Major Histocompatibility Complex, Minor Histocompatibility Antigens, Minor Histocompatibility Loci, Minor Lymphocyte Stimulatory Loci ♦ organ transplant coordinator ♦ Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta ♦ Suppressor Factors, Immunologic ♦ T4 antigen, T4 glycoprotein, T4 molecule,T4 protein, T8 antigen, T8 glycoprotein, T8 molecule, T8 protein, TRANSPLANT COORDINATOR, Transplantation, Isogeneic. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Histocompatibility

Domain	Title
Books	Minor Histocompatibility Antigens: From the Laboratory to the Clinic (Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit 8) (reference) Cell Biology of the Major Histocompatibility Complex (reference) Immunobiology of the Major Histocompatibility Complex (reference) Immunogenetics of the Major Histocompatibility Complex (reference) Major Histocompatibility Complex: Evolution, Structure, and Function (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Histocompatibility

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		This receptor interacts with molecules called MHC (major histocompatibility complex). (references)
		A person's cells are tagged with surface molecules called major histocompatibility antigens (MHA). (references)
		Further indications that more than one gene is involved in MS susceptibility comes from studies of families in which more than one member has MS. Several research teams found that people with MS inherit certain regions on individual genes more frequently than people without MS. Of particular interest is the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) or major histocompatibility complex region on chromosome 6. HLAs are genetically determined proteins that influence the immune system. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Histocompatibility

"Histocompatibility" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.62% of the time. "Histocompatibility" is used about 42 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	97.62%	41	53,521
Noun (proper)	2.38%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	42	N/A

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Expressions: Histocompatibility

Expressions using "histocompatibility": Histocompatibility Antigens ♦ Histocompatibility Antigens Class I ♦ Histocompatibility Antigens Class II ♦ Histocompatibility Testing ♦ Major Histocompatibility Complex ♦ Minor Histocompatibility Antigens ♦ Minor Histocompatibility Loci. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Histocompatibility

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.

Expression	Frequency per Day
major histocompatibility complex	7
histocompatibility	4
american histocompatibility immunogenetics society	4
american histocompatibility society	3
minor histocompatibility antigen	2
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Modern Translations: Histocompatibility

Language		Translations for "histocompatibility"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		组织相容性. (various references)

Danish		histokompatibilitet (histo-compatibility), vævsforligelighed (histo-compatibility). (various references)

Dutch		histocompatibiliteit (histo-compatibility). (various references)

Finnish		kudossopeutuvuus (histo-compatibility). (various references)

French		histo-compatibilité, histocompatibilité (histo-compatibility). (various references)

German		Histokompatibilität (histo-compatibility). (various references)

Greek		ιστοσυμβατότητα (histo-compatibility). (various references)

Italian		istocompatibilit� (histo-compatibility). (various references)

Pig Latin		istocompatibilityhay

Portuguese		histocompatibilidade. (various references)

Spanish		histocompatibilidad (histo-compatibility). (various references)

Swedish		major histocompatibility complex (major histocompatibility complex). (various references)

Turkish		dokuların uyumu, doku uyuşması. (various references)
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Anagrams: Histocompatibility

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-h-i-i-i-i-l-m-o-o-p-s-t-t-t-y"
	-5 letters: compatibility.
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