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chimerize

chimerize verb: to turn into a chimera.

Verb

chimerize (third-person singular simple present chimerizes, present participle chimerizing, simple past and past participle chimerized)

  1. to turn into a chimera
    • The homologous recombination technique has some advantages, such as the ability to quickly chimerize a mouse MAb.1989, New horizons of tumor immunotherapy: proceedings of the International Symposium on New Horizons of Tumor Immunotherapy, held in Fukuoka, Japan, 30 November-2 December 1988, page 352
    • Nevertheless, even ES cells, if cultured under less than optimal conditions, frequently acquire subtle changes that limit their ability to chimerize embryos and particularly to chimerize the germ line.2003, Human Embryonic Stem Cells, page 68

Forms of chimerize

third-person singular presentchimerizes
present participlechimerizing
past participlechimerized
pastchimerized

Questions about chimerize

What does chimerize mean?
Chimerize means to turn into a chimera.
What part of speech is chimerize?
Chimerize is a verb.
What is the past tense of chimerize?
The past tense of chimerize is chimerized.

Words near chimerize in the dictionary

  1. chimerised
  2. chimerism
  3. chimerisms
  4. chimerization
  5. chimerizations
  6. chimerize
  7. chimerized
  8. chimerizing
  9. chimerolectin
  10. chimerolectins
  11. chimers

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