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tissue engineering

tissue engineering noun: an interdisciplinary field that applies the principles of engineering and life sciences toward the development of biological substitutes that restore, maintain, or improve tissue function or a whole organ.

Noun

tissue engineering (uncountable)

  1. An interdisciplinary field that applies the principles of engineering and life sciences toward the development of biological substitutes that restore, maintain, or improve tissue function or a whole organ.

Questions about tissue engineering

What does tissue engineering mean?
Tissue engineering means an interdisciplinary field that applies the principles of engineering and life sciences toward the development of biological substitutes that restore, maintain, or improve tissue function or a whole organ.
What part of speech is tissue engineering?
Tissue engineering is a noun.

Words near tissue engineering in the dictionary

  1. tissue
  2. tissue committee
  3. tissue committees
  4. tissue culture
  5. tissue cultures
  6. tissue engineering
  7. tissue equivalent material
  8. tissue factor
  9. tissue factors
  10. tissue paper
  11. tissue papers

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