XENOTRANSPLANT

xenotransplant, xenotransplantation

(noun) a surgical procedure in which tissue or whole organs are transfered from one species to another species

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

xenotransplant (plural xenotransplants)

An instance of xenotransplantation.

Verb

xenotransplant (third-person singular simple present xenotransplants, present participle xenotransplanting, simple past and past participle xenotransplanted)

To carry out xenotransplantation.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

31 March 2025

IMPROVISED

(adjective) done or made using whatever is available; “crossed the river on improvised bridges”; “the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear”; “the rock served as a makeshift hammer”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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