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transplant (iou) and p53 (medicine)


transplant (iou)



transplant verb & noun. [as verb trans'plɑ:nt, trɑ:ns-, -nz-; as noun 'tra-, 'trɑ:] LME.
[Late Latin transplantare, formed as TRANS- + plantare PLANT verb.]
A. verb.
verb trans. Remove and reposition (a plant). LME.
Practical Gardening Sowing in a pot of seed compost..and then transplanting the seedlings.
verb trans. Convey or remove elsewhere; esp. transport to another country or place of residence. Freq. foll. by into, to. M16.
verb intrans. Settle in another place of residence; emigrate. E-M17.
verb trans. Medicine. Transfer (an organ or portion of tissue) from one part of the body, or from one person or animal, to another. L18.
verb intrans. Admit of being transplanted. L18.
b. noun.
A transplanted person or thing; spec. (a) a seedling transplanted one or more times; (b) Medicine an organ, tissue, etc., which has been surgically transplanted. M18.
Tree News The Forestry Commission confirmed that smaller transplants..are easier to establish. F. Parrish [His] hair was..a wig, or at least a transplant.
b. A person not native to his or her place of permanent residence. US. M20.
Los Angeles Times One of the hottest places for trendy California transplants.
Medicine. (An instance of) a surgical operation in which an organ, tissue, etc., is transplanted. M20.
transplanta'bility noun ability to be transplanted E19.
transplantable adjective able to be transplanted M17.
transplanter noun (a) a person who transplants plants; (b) a tool used for transplanting plants; (c) a surgeon carrying out transplant operations: E17.

p53 (medicine)


p53
<molecular biology, oncogene> A gene which encodes a protein that regulates cell growth and is able to cause potentially cancerous cells to destroy themselves.

In humans it is a 393 residue phosphoprotein that is a tumour suppressor gene rather than an oncogene, as it is frequently inactivated or mutated in tumours and transformed cells.

The gene is an antioncogene, and is often found mutated in smokers with lung cancer by a compound found in tobacco smoke, a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon called benzo[a]pyrene.

The protein it encodes is a phosphoprotein that is 53 kilodaltons in mass.