homograftn.

1923 H. Neuhof Transplantation of Tissues ii. 32 Autografts of skin have a degree of permanency in both animal and clinical surgery whereas..occasional successes with homografts of skin have been more than counter~balanced by the frequent failures.

1944 Jrnl. Anat. 78 182/2 The time-relations of the homograft reaction vary from one pair of animals—donor and recipient—to another.

1955 Sci. News 35 105 Blood vessel homografts are now being used on an ever increasing scale.

1960 News Chron. 22 June 6/4 Within a decade, the homograft barrier will be penetrated and human ‘spare-part’ surgery will be a reality.

1961 New Scientist 15 June 632/3 Only identical twins can accept organ and tissue grafts from one another without exciting the homograft reaction.

1962 Lancet 27 Jan. 193/2 A woman who had received a homograft of bone-marrow from her brother.

1968 D. Longmore Spare-part Surg. vi. 161 For the past three years my colleagues and I have been transplanting heart-lung homografts experimentally in animals.

1952 Jrnl. Nat. Cancer Inst. 14 669 Many surgeons..have found the results of grafting with autogenous tissues..superior to the results obtained by the use of similar homografted material.

1923 H. Neuhof Transplantation of Tissues i. 3 Homotransplantation (homoplasty, isoplasty, homografting, homoiotransplantation, homoplastic transplantation, isoplastic transplantation) is the transference of a tissue from one to another individual of the same species.

1937 Surgery I. 558 (heading) Homografting of skin: with report of success in identical twins.

1953 Proc. Soc. Exper. Biol. & Med. 82 523/2 Skin homograftings have been permanently successful only between identical twins..or between members of the same family.