xenograft.

Tissue, cells, or an organ transplanted from a donor of one species into a recipient of another.

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Words that belong together

• a xenograft recipient
• a tissue xenograft

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The xenograft required monitoring that the synthetic replacement would not have needed.

She checked which species supplied the tissue before describing the implant as a xenograft.

Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular xenograft; plural xenografts. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.