TRANSPLANTABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does transplantable mean? 

• TRANSPLANTABLE (adjective)
  The adjective TRANSPLANTABLE has 1 sense:

1. capable of being transplanted

  Familiarity information: TRANSPLANTABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRANSPLANTABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capable of being transplanted

Similar:

mobile (moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place))

 Context examples 

A transplantable monocytic-myeloid leukemia L5222 induced by ethyl nitrosourea has been used as a model for chemotherapy (Ivankovic and Zeller 1974).

(BDIX, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

A nondefective ecotropic retrovirus that was originally reported to induce myeloid leukemia in some strains of mice; isolated from filtrates of transplantable tumors; a species of gammaretrovirus.

(Graffi Murine Leukemia Virus, NCI Thesaurus)

A transplantable cell line (RUCA-I) derived from such a tumor in DA rats can produce these tumors in ectopic sites.

(DA, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

A transplantable melanoma that arose spontaneously in a mouse of DBA strain, and which grows and metastasizes in mice of related strains.

(Cloudman S91 Malignant Melanoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Will grow transplantable Morris hepatomas 3924A which can be used as a model for the treatment of liver cancer (Yang et al 1995).

(ACI, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

A melanin-forming tumor that arose spontaneously in a non-inbred mouse, and that is transplantable to mice of many strains but does not ordinarily metastasize.

(Harding-Passey Malignant Melanoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Transplantable colon tumor PROb grows progressively and metastasizes, whereas REGb grows slowly and is then rejected (Blottiere et al 1992a,b).

(BDIX, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)