Xenograft: medical term

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Xenograft

A surgical graft of tissue from one species to an unlike species (or genus or family). A graft from a baboon to a human is a xenograft.

The prefix 'xeno-' means foreign. It comes from the Greek word 'xenos' meaning stranger, guest, or host. (Xeno- and xen- are variant forms of the same prefix.)

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