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n. - A surgical procedure in which tissue or whole organs are transfered from one species to another species.

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  • They have kept pig lungs functioning with human blood, paving the way for animal-human transplants - called xenotransplantation - in as little as five years.
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  • Mary Shelly advising on the safety of xenotransplantation.
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