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Definition of engraftment in English English dictionary
- when bone marrow infused during a bone marrow transplant takes or is accepted by the patient and begins producing blood cells
- {i} hybridization, mixing species (in Agriculture - transplanting part of one plant into another)
- transplantation; the transfer of tissue or an organ from one individual to another
- The act of ingrafting; ingraftment
- The process in which transplanted bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cells begin to grow in the bone marrow of the host and to manufacture new white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets
- The process of infused donor stem cells homing to the marrow of a recipient and producing blood cells of all types Engraftment is first evident when new white cells, red cells and platelets begin to appear in the recipient's blood following stem cell transplantation
- when bone marrow infused during a BMT "takes" or is accepted by the patient, and begins producing blood cells
- The successful implantation and function of stem cells in the patient's bone marrow cavities
- The process by which newly transplanted stem cells migrate to and nest in the appropriate site of the recipient’s body and start producing normal quantities of normal mature cells
- The act of engrafting or something engrafted
- The process by which transplanted or transfused cells (for example, after a bone marrow transplant) begin to grow and reproduce themselves within the recipient
- engraft
- fix or set securely or deeply; "He planted a knee in the back of his opponent"; "The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum"
- engraft
- To fix firmly into place
- engraft
- To graft onto a plant
- engraft
- cause to grow together parts from different plants; "graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree"
- engraft
- {f} insert a shoot or twig from one tree into another for propagation; insert, implant (also ingraft)
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