The ability of two drugs not to interfere with each other when administered together.
The ability of a body to accept organs, tissue or blood from another person and not to reject them.
The degree to which the body’s defense systems will tolerate the presence of intruding foreign material, such as blood when transfused or a kidney when transplanted. Complete compatibility exists between identical twins: a blood transfusion between identical twins will evoke no antibody formation in the recipient. In severe incompatibility, for example between completely unrelated people, there are likely to be swift immune reactions as antibodies attack and destroy any offending antigenic material.
The extent to which a person’s defence systems will accept invading foreign substances for example, an injection of a drug, a blood transfusion or an organ transplant. When incompatibility occurs there is usually a rapid antibody attack on the invading antigen with a severe local or system reaction in the individual receiving the antigenic substance.
The ability to exist in harmony with another person.