rejection of a transplant

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• Transplant rejection — Classification and external resources Micrograph showing lung transplant rejection. Lung biopsy. H E stain. ICD …   Wikipedia

• rejection — 1550s, from Fr. réjection (16c.) or directly from L. rejectionem, noun of action from reicere (see REJECT (Cf. reject)). In 19c., it also could mean “excrement.” Medical transplant sense is from 1954. In the psychological sense, relating to… …   Etymology dictionary

• transplant — transplantable, adj. transplantation, n. transplanter, n. v. /trans plant , plahnt /; n. /trans plant , plahnt /, v.t. 1. to remove (a plant) from one place and plant it in another. 2. Surg. to transfer (an organ, tissue, etc.) from one part of… …   Universalium

• Transplant, heart — A surgical procedure in which a diseased heart is replaced with a healthy heart from a deceased person. The world’s first heart transplant was done on December 3, 1967 by South African surgeon Christiaan Bernard (1922 2001). The recipient… …   Medical dictionary

• Rejection — In transplantation biology, the refusal by the body to accept transplanted cells, tissues or organs. For example, a kidney transplanted may be rejected. * * * 1. The immunologic response to incompatibility in a transplanted organ. 2. A refusal to …   Medical dictionary

• rejection — re|jec|tion [ rı dʒekʃən ] noun ** ▸ 1 of offer/request etc. ▸ 2 of belief/system etc. ▸ 3 when someone does not love someone ▸ 4 refusal for job/course ▸ 5 organ transplant failure 1. ) count or uncount a refusal of an offer, proposal, or… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• Rejection — The word rejection was first used in 1415. The original meaning was to throw or to throw back .Rejection may mean:* Social rejection, in psychology, an interpersonal situation that occurs when a person or group of people exclude an individual… …   Wikipedia

• rejection */*/ — UK [rɪˈdʒekʃ(ə)n] / US noun Word forms rejection : singular rejection plural rejections 1) [countable/uncountable] a refusal to accept, approve, or support something Their rejection of the peace plan raises the threat of a more general war.… …   English dictionary

• Transplant, hand and forearm — Transplantation of the hand and the forearm from one person (a deceased donor) to another (the recipient). In the first hand transplant, performed in Ecuador in 1964, the donor hand was rejected after two weeks. The first successful hand and… …   Medical dictionary

• Organ transplant — An organ transplant is the moving of a whole or partial organ from one body to another (or from a donor site on the patient s own body), for the purpose of replacing the recipient s damaged or failing organ with a working one from the donor site …   Wikipedia

• kidney transplant — or renal transplant Replacement of a diseased or damaged kidney with one from a living relative or a legally dead donor. The former s tissue type is more likely to match, reducing the chance of rejection; but removal puts the donor at risk, and a …   Universalium