rejection

Examples

• All

• In 1983, the introduction of the immunosuppressant drug cyclosporine greatly reduced the rejection rates of transplanted organs.

  Academic text (1998)

• After suffering various crises of kidney rejection, he wound up back on dialysis and was dead within the year.

  Academic text (1998)

• I think it was easier for you to see me in pain than risk rejection.

  Joey & Rex Save the Church (2022)

• It's sometimes useful in the early stages of rejection.

  Vanilla Sky (2001)

• If you start getting infection or rejection, we're not going to be able to save you.

  Fiction book (2002)

• There seems to be a low-grade rejection.

  All I See Is You (2017)

• Yet, research in other avenues may also be able to overcome the immune rejection problem.

  Academic text (2017)

• Now for six months, you will take my anti-rejection serum, in pill form, to prevent the rejection of your new tissues.

  Wonder Women (1973)

• The doctor explained that organ rejection can occur if the body's immune system attacks the transplanted tissue.

• Patients must take medication to prevent rejection after receiving a new organ from a donor.

Synonyms

I

immune response

vsrejection

• Specialized

11 4.4

The body's reaction to germs like viruses or bacteria that fights infection

is limited to the body actively refusing to accept a transplanted organ

I

immune reaction

vsrejection

• Specialized

1 3.2

The body's defence that attacks foreign things like germs or transplanted organs

focuses specifically on the body refusing to accept a transplanted organ

I

immunologic response

vsrejection

• Specialized

5.3

The body's reaction that makes antibodies and sends cells to fight germs

is specific to the body not accepting a transplanted organ rather than general antigen attacks

Antonyms

A

acceptance

104 2.7

Being approved or welcomed by other people

I

integration

47 4.0

Putting two or more parts together so they work as one

Compounds

M

mental rejection

7.0

A state of not accepting an idea because you doubt it

How Severe

rejection

• Specialized

24 4.1

rejectable

• Specialized

8.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology