{"id":35443,"date":"2022-03-05T16:20:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T22:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=35443"},"modified":"2022-03-05T16:20:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T22:20:10","slug":"word-of-the-day-775","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/03\/05\/word-of-the-day-775\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Xenograft<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The prefix &#8220;xeno-&#8221; means foreign. It comes from the Greek word &#8220;xenos&#8221; meaning stranger, guest, or host. (Xeno- and xen- are variant forms of the same prefix.)\u00a0<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/xenograft\/definition.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>MedicineNet<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2307537-team-in-china-aims-to-start-trial-of-pig-organs-in-humans-this-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Team in China aims to start trial of pig organs in humans this year,<\/em><\/a>&#8221; Michael Le Page (<strong><em>NewScientist<\/em><\/strong>, 19 February 2022, paywall):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Other experts say the results are encouraging. \u201cThe availability of a modified xenograft that lasts longer could be of significant benefit to patients with large and deep wounds,\u201d says\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/renaissance.stonybrookmedicine.edu\/emergencymedicine\/faculty\/singer\">Adam Singer<\/a>\u00a0at Stony Brook University in New York.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;xeno-&#8221; means foreign. It comes from the Greek word &#8220;xenos&#8221; meaning stranger, guest, or host. (Xeno- and xen- are variant \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/03\/05\/word-of-the-day-775\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35444,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35443\/revisions\/35444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}