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- verb Present participle of
engraft .
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Examples
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And then, again, he proceeds to tell us the spiritual actions which vivify a man, that is, the engrafting of the
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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It naturally occurred to those interested in the Medical Institution that their problems of University connection and of endowment referred to by the Solicitor-General could be solved by "engrafting" the Institution on the proposed McGill
McGill and its Story, 1821-1921 Cyrus MacMillan 1916
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Kawashima I, Zanjani ED, Almaida-Porada G, Flake AW, Zeng H, Ogawa M. CD34+ human marrow cells that express low levels of Kit protein are enriched for long-term marrow-engrafting cells.
Fetal Stem Cell Transplantation, In Utero Stemm Cell Publications 2010
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The cells are engrafting — they're staying in the bloodstream, they're expanding over time, said Lalezari, who has no personal financial ties to Sangamo, the study's sponsor.
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Like Pullman, the Founding Father called them "superstitions" and "fabrications" added by people who had "an interest in sophisticating & perverting the simple doctrines [Jesus] taught by engrafting on them the mysticisms of a Grecian sophist, frittering them into subtleties & obscuring them with jargon."
'The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ,' reviewed by Ron Charles 2010
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And then, of course, there are all the challenges of actually engrafting patients.
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They dreamed of engrafting a temperate power on the absolute and excessive principle.
Les Miserables 2008
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Not a single future dreamed of engrafting itself on this solitary old man.
Les Miserables 2008
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It intimates more strongly the dynamic structure of the Christian life itself, which is that of divinization through engrafting into Christ.
Archive 2007-06-01 Mike L 2007
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It intimates more strongly the dynamic structure of the Christian life itself, which is that of divinization through engrafting into Christ.
On The Same Old Thing Mike L 2007
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Also known as engrafting, variolation consisted of taking pus from a person afflicted with smallpox and putting it beneath an uninfected person’s skin.
Before Vaccines, Variolation Was Seriously Trendy | JSTOR Daily Allison Miller 2020
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