antirejection
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of antirejection
L965–70
Example Sentences
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Johnson & Johnson's Cypher stent, which slowly releases the antirejection drug sirolimus, was the first drug-coated stent on the U.S. market.
From Reuters • Oct. 11, 2011
For instance, organ-transplant patients whose immune systems have been suppressed by antirejection drugs have a greatly increased risk of developing virus-related malignancies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Transplant surgery is a punishing procedure, and the battery of antirejection drugs a patient must take can cause grueling side effects.
From Time Magazine Archive
What may make the difference this time is an experimental antirejection drug known as FK-506; doctors hope it will keep the recipient's immune system from attacking the new liver as a foreign object.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last May the Joslin and two other medical centers launched a program to treat identified potential diabetics with an antirejection drug less toxic than cyclosporine.
From Time Magazine Archive
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