HISTOINCOMPATIBILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does histoincompatibility mean? 

• HISTOINCOMPATIBILITY (noun)
  The noun HISTOINCOMPATIBILITY has 1 sense:

1. incompatibility in which one person's tissue cannot be transplanted to another person

  Familiarity information: HISTOINCOMPATIBILITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HISTOINCOMPATIBILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Incompatibility in which one person's tissue cannot be transplanted to another person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("histoincompatibility" is a kind of...):

incompatibility ((immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue))