umbilical cord blood
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- (um-BIH-lih-kul KORD blud) Blood from the umbilical cord of a newborn baby. This blood contains high concentrations of stem cells (cells from which all blood cells develop).
National Cancer Institute - Cite This Source - This Definition - allogeneic stem cell transplantation, autologous stem cell transplantation, graft-versus-host disease, GVHD, placental blood transplantation, stem cell, syngeneic stem cell transplantation, transfusion, tumor model, xenograft