engraft
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
verb
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to graft (a shoot, bud, etc) onto a stock
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to incorporate in a firm or permanent way; implant
they engrafted their principles into the document
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However, after tens of thousands transplants, little was known about which donor strains provide long-term engraftment, and which engraft early after the transplant.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2023
Jimi also needed chemotherapy to kill off existing cells in his bone marrow so that his edited stem cells would have room to engraft and grow.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2023
But it can take about six weeks for cord blood cells to engraft, so she was also given partially matched blood stem cells from a first-degree relative.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
The ultimate aim is to create the so-called universal T cell—a cell that has the capacity to engraft in any person’s body.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2019
We were not sent here to engraft new principles into our foreign policy, and I will not consent to enter upon that business.
From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by L. E. (Lucius Eugene) Chittenden
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