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Words related to transplantation

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  • donor card

    a signed and witnessed card, meant to be carried in a wallet, purse, etc., specifying a person's wish to offer body organs or parts for transplantation or scientific use in case of death.

  • gene therapy

    the application of genetic engineering to the transplantation of genes into human cells in order to cure a disease caused by a genetic defect, as a missing enzyme.

  • keratoplasty

    plastic surgery performed upon the cornea, especially a corneal transplantation.

  • living bank

    a facility in which donated human organs or tissues are preserved for subsequent transplantation.

  • pisciculture

    the breeding, rearing, and transplantation of fish by artificial means.

  • recombinant dna technology

    any of various techniques for separating and recombining segments of DNA or genes, often employing a restriction enzyme to cut a gene from a donor organism and inserting it into a plasmid or viral DNA for transplantation into a host organism, where the gene causes the production of a desired substance either for harvesting or for the benefit of the host organism itself.
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