GVHD

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Initialism.

Noun[edit]

GVHD (uncountable)

  1. (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.
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