chimerize
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]chimerize (third-person singular simple present chimerizes, present participle chimerizing, simple past and past participle chimerized)
- to turn into a chimera
- 1989, New horizons of tumor immunotherapy: proceedings of the International Symposium on New Horizons of Tumor Immunotherapy, held in Fukuoka, Japan, 30 November-2 December 1988[1], page 352:
- The homologous recombination technique has some advantages, such as the ability to quickly chimerize a mouse MAb.
- 2003, Human Embryonic Stem Cells[2], page 68:
- Nevertheless, even ES cells, if cultured under less than optimal conditions, frequently acquire subtle changes that limit their ability to chimerize embryos and particularly to chimerize the germ line.
- 2011, Chimeras and Consciousness: Evolution of the Sensory Self[3], page 233:
- it took enlarged brains with prolonged development, in bodies able to easily communicate with others, before brains could exploit it to chimerize with symbols