heterograft Med. and Biol.
(ˈhɛtərəʊgrɑːft, -græft)
[f. hetero- + graft n.1]
A graft taken from an individual of a species different from that of the recipient; a heterotransplant.
Quot. 1909 is in the sense of homograft.
| 1909 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 23 Dec. 918/2 Auto-grafts succeed better than hetero-grafts. 1923 Stedman Med. Dict. (ed. 7) 449/2 Heterograft, a graft taken from an animal—not from another person, isograft, or from another part of the same individual, autograft. 1927 H. T. Karsner Human Path. xi. 313 The fact that chemical conditions must be nicely adjusted is indicated by the failure of heterografts and the relatively higher degree of success of autografts over homeografts. 1948 Endeavour VII. 165 In simpler organisms, such as Hydra, the graft can be of different species (heterograft). 1972 Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 12 Mar. 22/5 The Brooke research team looked to animals as a source of possible heterografts. |
Hence ˈheterografted ppl. a.; ˈheterografting vbl. n.
| 1927 H. T. Karsner Human Path. xi. 312 Hetero⁓grafting..would throw open a large field for transplantation of various tissues and organs which cannot be removed from human donors..until death has occurred. 1961 Biol. Abstr. XXXVI. 2017/2 Regeneration of homografted and heterografted limbs in the stick insects. 1968 J. C. Norman et al. Organ Perfusion & Preservation xxviii. 382 Heterografted fox livers. Ibid. 383 The loss of perfusion immediately after heterografting. |