engraft

Example Sentences

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My sister had adopted kids, and other people I knew had adopted kids, but I just couldn’t imagine that it could feel so engrafting.

From The Verge

Morality was "engrafted onto this disease that they did not understand very well", Prof Olivarius said, a pattern that has endured.

From BBC

It requires toxic chemotherapy to kill some of a patient's natural T cells to make "space" for the new ones to engraft.

From Science Magazine

“She’s doing great. She was supposed to be in the hospital for about three months. She was engrafted, which means her body accepted the cells, and so she got sent home a month earlier.”

From Washington Times

That data, it states, indicates that the mice are superior to other mice that don’t rely on engrafted fetal tissue, because the transplanted tissue takes root better, differentiates better, and survives and functions better.

From Science Magazine