engraft

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The Company's preclinical research has shown that HuCNS-SC cells can be directly transplanted; they engraft, migrate, differentiate into neurons and glial cells; and they survive for as long as one year with no sign of tumor formation or adverse effects.

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  1. transitive verb To graft (a scion) onto or into another plant.
  2. transitive verb To plant firmly; establish.

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  • The Company's preclinical research has shown that HuCNS-SC cells can be directly transplanted; they engraft, migrate, differentiate into neurons and glial cells; and they survive for as long as one year with no sign of tumor formation or adverse effects. —  Health News from Medical News Today
  • Secondly cloth murder cells take longer to grow and display newborn murder cells and till the cells engraft, the enduring is at a high venture for infection. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • God again gives the key to real teaching in the word "engraft." —  The Unfolding Life A Study of Development with Reference to Religious Training
  • The interpreter will placidly proceed to translate a long string of sentences, just fallen from a speaker's lips, to engraft which upon our memory would be a performance most trying and difficult; and to have their repetition. —  A Treatise on the Six-Nation Indians
  • Even these, should one engraft them, or transplant —  The Georgics
 

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/ɪn, ɛnˈgræft/
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