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microchimera

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
mi-crochimera
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A microchimeric cell

noun

A type of human chimera produced when fetal stem cells or maternal cells cross the placenta (fetal-maternal microchimerism) or following blood transfusion (transfusion-associated microchimerism) or organ transplantation.

Etymology

From micro- + chimera.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

microchimeras (plural) microchimaera (alternative) microchimæra (alternative)

Questions

What does microchimera mean?
A microchimeric cell
Where does microchimera come from?
From micro- + chimera.

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