ADJECTIVE
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being or relating to or like a chimera
his Utopia is not as chimeric commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists
How To Use chimeric In A Sentence
- With this deletion, the chimeric virus was less able to replicate itself when injected into the monkeys.
- Because it offers resistance, however chimerical, to the teeth. THE SAVAGE GIRL
- Following an initial chimeric state (bi - or multi-partner chimeras), maturation of the allorecognition system of corals could potentially lead to the death of the entire entity or of just some of the genotypes within the genetically heterogeneous individual. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- As I maintained a while back, punk was part of the glam continuum; the ‘break’ between glam and punk looks chimerical.
- Duncan BD, Harrison MR, Crombleholme TM, Clemons G, Tavassole, Zanjani ED: Effect of erythropoietic stress on donor hematopoietic cell expression in chimeric rhesus monkeys transplanted in utero. Fetal Stem Cell Transplantation, In Utero Stemm Cell Publications
- Duncan BW, Harrison MR, Flake AW, Bethel CI, Bigler ME, Roncorolo MG: Immune response in hematopoietic chimeric rhesus monkeys. Fetal Stem Cell Transplantation, In Utero Stemm Cell Publications
- A chimeric animal would be fundamentally different from a hybrid, which is created by cross-breeding two species.
- These are either altogether superfluous, mere badges of ostentation and luxurious wealth, or they point to some fifth function not so much as contemplated by other universities, and, at present, absolutely and chimerically beyond their means of attainment. Memorials and Other Papers — Complete
- In concert with contemporary theory, she posits a world of belated, thwarted deixis, of quasi-chimerical example.
- Increased apoptotic and acidophilic bodies were detected in both MH and HH populations of chimeric livers from vTK+ SCID/uPA that received GCV compared to those from mice that did not receive GCV and vTK − SCID/uPA mice (not shown). PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles