NOUN
- a surgical procedure in which tissue or whole organs are transfered from one species to another species
How To Use xenotransplantation In A Sentence
- The main ethical problems included the health risks for the transplant recipient (e.g., a substantial risk of hyperacute rejection and graft-versus-host disease), traditional animal ethics issues, concerns about informed consent (complicated by empirical uncertainties and the possibility of legally mandated life-long health surveillance), fair allocation of health care resources, and the public health issue that xenotransplantation would allow viruses to jump the species barrier into humans. Human/Non-Human Chimeras
- Xenotransplantation is currently an experimental technique only.
- Patients undergoing xenotransplantation will be especially vulnerable, because their natural defences are down.
- The ethics of xenotransplantation are relatively unworrying.
- America's Food and Drug Administration has already published draft guidelines for xenotransplantation.
