INCOMPATIBILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does incompatibility mean? 

• INCOMPATIBILITY (noun)
  The noun INCOMPATIBILITY has 3 senses:

1. the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time

2. (immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue)

3. the quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination

  Familiarity information: INCOMPATIBILITY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCOMPATIBILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

incompatibility; inconsistency; mutual exclusiveness; repugnance

Hypernyms ("incompatibility" is a kind of...):

contradictoriness (the relation that exists when opposites cannot coexist)

Derivation:

incompatible (not compatible with other facts)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("incompatibility" is a kind of...):

physical condition; physiological condition; physiological state (the condition or state of the body or bodily functions)

Domain category:

immunology (the branch of medical science that studies the body's immune system)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "incompatibility"):

histoincompatibility (incompatibility in which one person's tissue cannot be transplanted to another person)

Rh incompatibility (incompatibility of Rh blood types; a transfusion of Rh-positive blood given to a Rh-negative person (or vice versa) can result in hemolysis and anemia)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("incompatibility" is a kind of...):

characteristic (a distinguishing quality)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "incompatibility"):

conflict (an incompatibility of dates or events)

incongruity; incongruousness (the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate)

Antonym:

compatibility (capability of existing or performing in harmonious or congenial combination)

Derivation:

incompatible (not compatible)

incompatible (not suitable to your tastes or needs)

incompatible (not easy to combine harmoniously)

 Context examples 

Other conditions that can make pregnancy risky can happen while you are pregnant - for example, gestational diabetes and Rh incompatibility.

(Health Problems in Pregnancy, NIH)

Issue associated with the incompatibility of any device and/or device components while being operated in the same use environment thereby leading to a dysfunction between the device and its components.

(Medical Device Component or Accessory Incompatibility, Food and Drug Administration)

It is also associated with vitamin A, C, or D deficiency, infectious disease, prematurity, birth injury, Rh incompatibility, trauma, or local infection.

(Enamel Hypoplasia, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

These evidences of an incompatibility of temper induced Miss Betsey to pay him off, and effect a separation by mutual consent.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Issue associated with the incompatibility of two or more devices while being operated in the same use environment thereby leading to a dysfunction of more than one device.

(Device-Device Incompatibility, Food and Drug Administration)

Encephalopathy in infants due to high levels of unconjugated bilirubin that are a result of Rh incompatibility between the mother and the fetus.

(Kernicterus due to Isoimmunization, NCI Thesaurus)

Issue associated with any deviations from specifications relating to device operations (e.g. deployment, connection, electrical, computer software, infusion/flow, output, protective-measure, and incompatibility issues).

(Medical Device Operational Issue, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The indirect test is applied to serum to detect the presence of antibody (e.g., in detection of incompatibility in cross-matching tests, detection and identification of irregular antibodies, and in detection of antibodies not identifiable by other means).

(Coombs Test, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Issue associated with the incompatibility of the measurement systems between and/or within device systems that are inherent to the individual device thereby leading to miscalculated or mismatched measurements from those devices, e.g., international metric system versus U.S. measurement system.

(Measurement System Incompatibility Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)

An incompatibility reaction (which may be fatal) in a subject (host) of low immunological competence (deficient lymphoid tissue) who has been the recipient of immunologically competent lymphoid tissue from a donor who lacks at least one antigen possessed by the recipient host; the reaction, or disease, is the result of action of the transplanted cells against those host tissues that possess the antigen not possessed by the donor.

(Graft Versus Host Disease, NCI Thesaurus)