Xenocontamination

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Contamination by a different species. uncountable

    "Second, the possibility of xenocontamination during transplantation by mouse feeder layer, fetal bovine serum, or recombinant growth factors could therefore be avoided."

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"Second, the possibility of xenocontamination during transplantation by mouse feeder layer, fetal bovine serum, or recombinant growth factors could therefore be avoided."

Etymology

From xeno- + contamination.

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