Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

white graft

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.47 in modern English

Syllables: white -graft
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A hyperacute rejection of a transplant, such as a skin graft, such that vascularization doesn’t occur due to the arteries being occluded by preformed antibodies, resulting in infarction and requiring removal of the transplant.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"All control grafts were rejected in the time and manner of first set grafts, but the test graft was rejected in the time and manner of a white graft."
"The histologic patterns of response observed in animals exhibiting either white graft or accelerated rejection reactions were identical to those described for such reactions after sensitization of the recipients with guinea pig tissues."
"Thus, in one situation there was produced a very strongly reacting antibody giving a white graft and short survival, whereas in another circumstance a different type of antibody resulted in graft prolongation."

Etymology

From the anemia of the rejected transplant tissue.

Usage

Inflected Forms

white grafts (plural)

Questions

What does white graft mean?: A hyperacute rejection of a transplant, such as a skin graft, such that vascularization doesn’t occur due to the arteries being occluded by preformed antibodies, resulting in infarction and requiring removal of the transplant.
Where does white graft come from?: From the anemia of the rejected transplant tissue.

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