SOMATIC CELL NUCLEAR TRANSPLANTATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does somatic cell nuclear transplantation mean? 

• SOMATIC CELL NUCLEAR TRANSPLANTATION (noun)
  The noun SOMATIC CELL NUCLEAR TRANSPLANTATION has 1 sense:

1. moving a cell nucleus and its genetic material from one cell to another

  Familiarity information: SOMATIC CELL NUCLEAR TRANSPLANTATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOMATIC CELL NUCLEAR TRANSPLANTATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Moving a cell nucleus and its genetic material from one cell to another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

nuclear transplantation; SCNT; somatic cell nuclear transfer; somatic cell nuclear transplantation

Hypernyms ("somatic cell nuclear transplantation" is a kind of...):

biological research (scientific research conducted by biologists)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "somatic cell nuclear transplantation"):

biomedical cloning; therapeutic cloning (nuclear transplantation of a patient's own cells to make an oocyte from which immune-compatible cells (especially stem cells) can be derived for transplant)