Category: I

Genetically identical. In transplantations, being isologous (or isogenic) indicates the absence of any tissue incompatibility between the recipient of tissue and the tissue or organ itself.  

A hospital unit in which patients suffering from communicable diseases may be separated from other patients.  

An isolation technique that protects both health care personnel and patients from anyone who has or is suspected of having an infectious disease.  

The destruction of red blood cells produced by an isolysin; the action of an isohemolysin.  

The naturally occurring anti-A and anti-B antibodies against the antigens present on red blood cells. If incompatible blood is transfused, these antibodies destroy the recipient’s red blood cells through agglutination and hemolysis. Patients with type A blood cannot receive blood from a donor with type B or AB blood, because they have anti-B antibodies. Patients…

A cluster of cells that have come from one cell, such as the clusters of chondrocytes in cartilage.  

A similarity in morphological development.  

Of the same kind; concerning or obtained from members of the same genus.  

A method for separating proteins according to their surface charge by placing them in a gel with a pH gradient and subjecting them to an electrical current. The proteins stop migrating through the gel when they encounter ampholytes with similar charges.  

Producing ultrasound echoes equal to those of neighboring or of normal tissues.