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NUCLEAR TRANSPLANTATION

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Dictionary entry overview: What does nuclear transplantation mean?

• NUCLEAR TRANSPLANTATION (noun)
The noun NUCLEAR TRANSPLANTATION has 1 sense:

1. moving a cell nucleus and its genetic material from one cell to another

Familiarity information: NUCLEAR TRANSPLANTATION used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• NUCLEAR TRANSPLANTATION (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Moving a cell nucleus and its genetic material from one cell to another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

nuclear transplantation; SCNT; somatic cell nuclear transfer; somatic cell nuclear transplantation

Hypernyms ("nuclear transplantation" is a kind of...):

biological research (scientific research conducted by biologists)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nuclear transplantation"):

biomedical cloning; therapeutic cloning (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)

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