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radiation chimera, irradiation chimera
1. An organism displaying immunologic characteristics of both host and donor following whole-body radiation to neutralize an immune response to the donor's cells, as in a bone marrow graft.
2. A medical patient who has been subjected to whole body irradiation to lower immune responses to foreign donor cells and therefore has the immunological characteristics of both host and donor after a bone marrow graft from the antigenically different donor.
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