Meaning of white graft | Babel Free

Definitions

A hyperacute rejection of a transplant, such as a skin graft, such that vascularization doesn’t occur due to the arteries being occluded by preformed antibodies, resulting in infarction and requiring removal of the transplant.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“All control grafts were rejected in the time and manner of first set grafts, but the test graft was rejected in the time and manner of a white graft.”

“The histologic patterns of response observed in animals exhibiting either white graft or accelerated rejection reactions were identical to those described for such reactions after sensitization of the recipients with guinea pig tissues.”

“Thus, in one situation there was produced a very strongly reacting antibody giving a white graft and short survival, whereas in another circumstance a different type of antibody resulted in graft prolongation.”

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