XENOTRANSPLANTATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does xenotransplantation mean? 

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

1. a surgical procedure in which tissue or whole organs are transfered from one species to another species

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• XENOTRANSPLANTATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A surgical procedure in which tissue or whole organs are transfered from one species to another species

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

xenotransplant; xenotransplantation

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

organ transplant; transplant; transplantation (an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient))

 Context examples 

This, they say, may lead to the first direct xenotransplantation within as little as two years.

(Scientist Move Closer to Pig-human Organ Transplants, VOA)

Other scientists express skepticism saying a lot more research is needed before xenotransplantation becomes widely available.

(Scientist Move Closer to Pig-human Organ Transplants, VOA)

According to scientists at Harvard University, advances in research of xenotransplantation, or transplantation of animal organs to humans, promises to bridge the huge gap between the number of human organs available for transplants and the number of patients on waiting lists.

(Scientist Move Closer to Pig-human Organ Transplants, VOA)