engrafted; engrafting; engrafts
: to become grafted and begin functioning normally
the transplanted bone marrow engrafted successfully
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Before getting the altered cells infused, a patient must undergo chemotherapy to clear out space in their bone marrow for the new cells to engraft.
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Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2022
Traditionally, such a donor must have a close enough human leukocyte antigen, or HLA, match to maximize the likelihood that the stem cell transplant will engraft well.
—NBC News, 16 Feb. 2022
There were now tests to help predict compatibility and to improve the chances that allogeneic marrow cells would engraft.
—Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 15 July 2019
Without a sufficient dose of cells, transplants are at a high risk of failing or of taking so long to engraft in the recipient’s bone marrow that patients face lengthy exposure to life-threatening infections.
—Ron Winslow, WSJ, 28 May 2018
Here, a blatant disunity exists between matters engrafted at the last minute on to S.B. 331.
—Kaylee Remington, cleveland.com, 3 June 2017
Dopamine neurons derived from human ES cells efficiently engraft in animal models of Parkinson’s disease.
—Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2011
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Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2022
Traditionally, such a donor must have a close enough human leukocyte antigen, or HLA, match to maximize the likelihood that the stem cell transplant will engraft well.
—NBC News, 16 Feb. 2022
There were now tests to help predict compatibility and to improve the chances that allogeneic marrow cells would engraft.
—Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 15 July 2019
Without a sufficient dose of cells, transplants are at a high risk of failing or of taking so long to engraft in the recipient’s bone marrow that patients face lengthy exposure to life-threatening infections.
—Ron Winslow, WSJ, 28 May 2018
Here, a blatant disunity exists between matters engrafted at the last minute on to S.B. 331.
—Kaylee Remington, cleveland.com, 3 June 2017
Dopamine neurons derived from human ES cells efficiently engraft in animal models of Parkinson’s disease.
—Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2011
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“Engraft.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/engraft. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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