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81Legal transplant — The term legal transplant was coined in the 1970’s by the Scottish American legal scholar W.A.J. Alan Watson to indicate the moving of a rule or a system of law from one country to another (A. Watson, Legal Transplants: An Approach to Comparative …
82Autologous Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplant for Cartilage Growth — Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are pluripotent cells found in multiple human adult tissues including bone marrow, synovial tissues, and adipose tissues. Since they are derived from the mesoderm, they have been shown to differentiate into bone,… …
83bonemarrow transplant — bone marrow transplant n. A technique in which bone marrow is transplanted from one individual to another, or removed from and transplanted to the same individual, in order to stimulate production of blood cells. It is used to treat malignancies …
84fetaltissue transplant — fetal tissue transplant n. 1. A procedure in which tissue from an aborted fetus is transplanted to the diseased or damaged tissue of a recipient in order to replace or augment the defective tissue, used especially to treat neurological disorders… …
85beating-heart transplant — noun A heart transplant operation in which the donor heart is kept full of blood and continues to beat in a machine between donor and recipient …
86Lung transplant — The first lung transplant was done by the American surgeon James Hardy (1918 ) in 1964 …
87face transplant — /ˈfeɪs trænsplænt/ (say fays transplant) noun Medicine an operation in which a person s face, when severely damaged or disfigured, is wholly or partly replaced with the face of a donor …
88faecal transplant — /fikəl ˈtrænsplænt/ (say feekuhl transplant) noun the transfer of a faeces sample from a healthy donor into the gut of a person suffering a bowel complaint, as a clostridium infection, so as to restore a healthy microbial population to the gut,… …
89kidney transplant — /ˈkɪdni trænsplænt/ (say kidnee transplant) noun an operation involving the transplantation of a kidney from one person to another …
90post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder — A condition in which a group of B cells grow out of control after an organ transplant in patients with weakened immune systems. This usually happens if the patient has also been infected with Epstein Barr virus. PTLD may progress to non Hodgkin… …
