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Related terms:
organ transplantation
surgical replantation
transplantation
cell transplantation
xenograft procedure
cold ischemia
warm ischemia
Therapeutic or Preventive Procedure
homologous transplantation
ho·mol·o·gous trans·plan·ta·tion
Subclass of:
Transplantation
Definitions related to transplantation, homologous:
  • (allograft) The transplant of an organ, tissue, or cells from one individual to another individual of the same species who is not an identical twin.
    NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • (allografting) Grafting or transplanting cells, tissues, or organs between genetically non-identical individuals.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Transplantation between individuals of the same species. Usually refers to genetically disparate individuals in contradistinction to isogeneic transplantation for genetically identical individuals.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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