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Security - A security system that provides several levels (e.g., low, moderate, high) of protection based on threats, risks, available technology, support services, time, human concerns, and economics.
NIST - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: IT-Related Risk, Residual Risk, Sensitivity Levels, Threat, Threat Agent/Source, Threat Analysis, Threat Assessment, Threat Source, Total Risk, Vulnerability
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Cancer - (... dih-ZEEZ) A disease caused when cells from a donated stem cell graft attack the normal tissue of the transplant patient. Symptoms include jaundice, skin rash or blisters, a dry mouth, or dry eyes. Also called GVHD.
National Cancer Institute - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: allogeneic stem cell transplantation, autologous stem cell transplantation, GVHD, placental blood transplantation, stem cell, syngeneic stem cell transplantation, transfusion, tumor model, umbilical cord blood, xenograft
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Food Biotechnology - The rejection of transplanted organs by the recipient's immune system, due to attack of the recipient's T lymphocyte s on the transplanted organ caused by differences in major histocompatibility complex proteins.
UN Food and Agriculture Organization - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: adoptive immunization, antiserum, auto-immune disease, auto-immunity, bleeding, histocompatibility, immunity, immunization, immunoprophylaxis, inoculate, passive immunity
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Stem Cell - A condition that occurs following bone marrow transplantation in which the donor-derived T cells attack the host's tissues.
DHHS - Cite This Source - This Definition - A side effect of a bone marrow or stem cell transplant that occurs when new bone marrow or stem cells (the graft) reject or attack the patient's body (the host).
Cancer Treatment Centers of America - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: Allogeneic cell transplantation, Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant, Allogeneic transplantation, autologous, Autologous Stem Cell Transplant, Autologous transplant, Histocompatible, Immunocompromised mice, Immunosuppressive drugs, Major histocompatibility complex (MHC), transplantation, Transplantation biology, Xenotransplantion
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Cancer - An immune response to a person's tumor cells by immune cells present in a donor's transplanted tissue, such as bone marrow or peripheral blood.
National Cancer Institute - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: aplastic anemia, autologous bone marrow, autologous bone marrow transplantation, bone marrow, bone marrow ablation, bone marrow cancer, CD34 antigen, hepatic veno-occlusive disease, IBMFS, inherited bone marrow failure syndrome, T-cell depletion, tacrolimus, total-body irradiation
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Telecommunications - Systems, including but not limited to: (a) PBX and key telephone systems, directly connected to the public switched telephone network on June 1, 1978, that may remain permanently connected thereto without registration unless subsequently modified, and (b) systems that are of the same type as those connected to the public switched telephone network on July 1, 1978, that were added before January 1, 1980, and that may remain permanently connected thereto without registration unless subsequently modified.
ATIS - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: adaptive communications, cellular mobile, connection, digital access and cross-connect system (DACS), disconnect signal, lockout, private line, public switched network (PSN), push-to-talk (PTT) operation, switched circuit, switching system