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microchimera

noun

Etymology

From micro- + chimera.

  1. derived from Chimäre
  2. derived from *ǵʰey-✻
  3. derived from Χίμαιρα
  4. derived from Chimaera
  5. derived from chimère
  6. inherited from chimere
  7. prefixed as microchimera — “micro + chimera”

Definitions

  1. A microchimeric cell

  2. A type of human chimera produced when fetal stem cells or maternal cells cross the…

    A type of human chimera produced when fetal stem cells or maternal cells cross the placenta (fetal-maternal microchimerism) or following blood transfusion (transfusion-associated microchimerism) or organ transplantation.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for microchimera. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA