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Definition: Xenograft |
XenograftNoun1. Tissue from an animal of one species used as a temporary graft (as in cases of severe burns) on an individual of another species. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | The cells of one species transplanted to another species. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: XenograftSynonym: heterograft (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Xenograft |
| Specialty definitions using "xenograft": animal model ♦ Transplantation Immunology, tumor model. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Apoptosis (programmed cell death) in newly transplanted human corneas and human corneal cryopreservation will be studied in a xenograft model. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Xenograft" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Xenograft" is used about 8 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) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "xenograft": cell xenograft ♦ cellular xenograft ♦ Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays ♦ xenograft recipient. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 |
xenograft | 7 |
product xenograft | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "xenograft"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 异种移植. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | Xenotransplantation (xeno-transplant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | xenotransplantaat (xeno-transplant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | xénogreffon, xénogreffe (xeno-transplant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Transplantation körperfremden Gewebes. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | μεταμόσχευση ξένου ιστού. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | xenotrapianto (xeno-transplant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enograftxay xenoenxerto. (various references) injerto heterólogo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "xenograft": xenografts. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-g-n-o-r-t-x" | |
-1 letter: frontage. | |
-2 letters: engraft, fagoter, negator. | |
-3 letters: argent, atoner, forage, forgat, forget, garnet, garote, onager, orange, orgeat, ornate, tonger. | |
-4 letters: afore, after, agent, agone, anger, antre, argon, argot, atone, axone, ergot, extra, fagot, fetor, forge, forte, frena, front, ganef, ganof, gator, genoa, genro, gofer, gonef, goner, graft, grant, grate, great, groan, groat, noter, oaten, oater. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-g-n-o-r-t-x" | |
+1 letter: xenografts. | |
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