STEM-CELL RESEARCH

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Meaning:

Research on stem cells and their use in medicine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("stem-cell research" is a kind of...):

biological research (scientific research conducted by biologists)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stem-cell research"):

embryonic stem-cell research (biological research on stem cells derived from embryos and on their use in medicine)