tissue typing
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- noun
- /ˈtɪʃuː ˈtaɪpɪŋ/
- Specialized
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tipificación de tejidos
- Before the transplant, the doctors conducted tissue typing to ensure compatibility between the donor and recipient.
Examples
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It was a referral from the army for a fully paid appointment for Ali's wife to be tissue-typed with him.
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Ali told me that after praying salat al-istikhara, he never felt "happy" about a decision to go and get tested for tissue typing.
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- It was a bad match on tissue-typing.
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Well, let's say I wanted a list of all the patients... ...who had tissue-typing in the last month.
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Tissue-typed for D and C?
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I think I'd better check the tissue-typing lab.
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As far as I can tell, there are no unusual aspects... ...except that the patient was tissue-typed.
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The tissue typing is spot on with a 3% margin of error.
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You did tissue-typing... ...but there's no physician name and billing number.
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In order to be someone's match, you have to have a tissue-typing sample performed by a simple cheek swab.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound combines 'tissue' (biological tissue) with 'typing' (the act of assigning a type), so a learner who knows both words can infer it involves categorizing tissues. However, the specific medical sense—testing compatibility for transplants—is technical and not fully predictable from the constituents alone, so prior exposure or domain knowledge is needed.
Etymology
Tissue typing comes from checking small pieces of body tissue, and the typing part means finding their 'type', like checking sizes before matching clothes. Doctors do these tests to see if a donor and a recipient 'fit', so the phrase means the tests done before an organ transplant.