Associations to the word «Histocompatibility»

Wiktionary

HISTOCOMPATIBILITY, noun. The condition of being histocompatible
HISTOCOMPATIBILITY, noun. The toleration of grafts between genetically similar individuals
HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN, noun. Any of the human leukocyte antigens (HLAs) which are the determinants of histocompatibility
HISTOCOMPATIBILITY GENE, noun. Any of the genes, responsible for histocompatibility, that encode polymorphic cell-surface proteins

Dictionary definition

HISTOCOMPATIBILITY, noun. Condition in which the cells of one tissue can survive in the presence of cells of another tissue; "a successful graft or transplant requires a high degree of histocompatibility".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope