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porcine

[pawr-sahyn, -sin] / ˈpɔr saɪn, -sɪn /
ADJECTIVE
pertaining to pigs
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The recipient survived for 171 days, providing early evidence that modified porcine livers can take on essential metabolic and synthetic duties in people.

From Science Daily

Children who cannot have porcine gelatine in medical products will be offered an injection.

From BBC

Pigs can carry viruses such as porcine cytomegalovirus, the one that was detected in Bennett, the person who received a pig heart transplant in 2022.

From Scientific American

For example, the company Revivicor, which is owned by United Therapeutics and provided the pigs used in the University of Maryland transplants, leaves the porcine viral genes intact.

From Scientific American

Up to 65% of the cells in these organs were human, indicating the stem cells had spawned kidney cells in their porcine surroundings.

From Science Magazine