GVHD
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See also: GvHD
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Initialism.
Noun
[edit]GVHD (uncountable)
- (pathology) Initialism of graft-versus-host disease.
- 2005, Donald Hall, The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 121:
- Post-BMT, her body would show signs of GVHD, which is graft-versus-host disease; the new marrow tries to reject the body it occupies. Her mouth would be assaulted by radiation before the transplant.