Xenotransplantation

1925 novel by Mikhail Bulgakov

parasitic crustacean

Xenotransplantation (xenos- from the Greek meaning "foreign" or strange), or heterologous transplant, is the transplantation of living cells, tissues or organs from one species to another. Such cells, tissues or organs are called xenografts or xenotransplants. It is contrasted with allotransplantation (from other individual of same species), syngeneic transplantation or isotransplantation (grafts transplanted between two genetically identical individuals of the same species), and autotransplantation (from one part of the body to another in the same person). Xenotransplantation is an artificial

1961 film by Vladimir Chebotaryov, Gennady Kazansky

1988 television film by Vladimir Bortko

1928 novel by Alexander Belyayev

1976 film by Alberto Lattuada

American surgeon (1918–2003)

American infant and xenotransplant patient (1984–1984)

French urologist and transplant surgeon (1913–2006)