xenograft
/ˈzɛnəˌɡræft/
noun
- A tissue or organ transplant from a donor of a different species.
- Doctors are working to improve the success rate of xenografts.
- Xenografts are used in research to study human diseases.
- The patient received a xenograft from a genetically modified pig.
Synonyms
verb
- To transplant tissue or an organ from a donor of a different species.
- Researchers xenograft human cancer cells into mice to test treatments.
- They successfully xenografted the skin from a fish onto the burn victim.
- The surgeon plans to xenograft the pig's heart into the baboon.