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BIOMEDICAL CLONING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Nuclear transplantation of a patient's own cells to make an oocyte from which immune-compatible cells (especially stem cells) can be derived for transplant
Synonyms:
biomedical cloning; therapeutic cloning
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("biomedical cloning" is a kind of...):
cloning (a general term for the research activity that creates a copy of some biological entity (a gene or organism or cell))
nuclear transplantation; SCNT; somatic cell nuclear transfer; somatic cell nuclear transplantation (moving a cell nucleus and its genetic material from one cell to another)
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