bone marrow transplantation
11bone marrow grafting — noun (medicine) Grafting or transplantation of bone marrow to patients with bone marrow failure (used in aplastic anaemia or after therapeutic destruction of the bone marrow in leukaemia) • • • Main Entry: ↑bone …
12allogeneic bone marrow transplantation — A procedure in which a person receives stem cells (cells from which all blood cells develop) from a genetically similar, but not identical, donor …
13autologous bone marrow — In transplantation, refers to a person s own bone marrow. Bone marrow is the soft, sponge like tissue in the center of most large bones that produces white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets …
14Transplantation, peripheral blood stem cell — A new technique in which stem cells are obtained from a patient s blood and used in bone marrow transplantation. Stem cells are small, round cells with a squat nucleus and scant surrounding cytoplasm. Although unremarkable in appearance, stem… …
15Transplantation genetics — The field of biology and medicine relating to the genes that govern the acceptance or rejection of a transplant. The most important genes deciding the fate of a transplanted cell, tissue, or organ belong to what is termed the MHC (the major… …
16Bone healing — or fracture healing is a proliferative physiological process, in which the body facilitates repair of bone fractures. Physiology and process of healing In the process of fracture healing, several phases of recovery facilitate the proliferation… …
17Transplantation de moelle osseuse — Transplantation de moelle La transplantation de moelle est une greffe consistant à transférer de la moelle osseuse d un individu à un autre souffrant d une pathologie de sa moelle. Elle peut être la seule voie de guérison. Elle permet l… …
18transplantation — Implanting in one part a tissue or organ taken from another part or from another individual. SEE ALSO: graft. [L. transplanto, pp. atus, to transplant] bone marrow t. grafting of bone marrow tissue …
19bone disease — Introduction any of the diseases or injuries that affect human bones (bone). Diseases and injuries of bones are major causes of abnormalities of the human skeletal system (skeletal system, human). Although physical injury, causing fracture,… …
20transplantation — n. the implantation of an organ or tissue (see graft) from one part of the body to another or from one person (the donor) to another (the recipient). Success for transplantation depends on the degree of compatibility between donor and graft: it… …
