preharvested
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]preharvested (not comparable)
- Prior to harvesting; pre-harvest
- (medicine) Harvested in advance
- 2008 October 31, Lauren Cahoon, “More Than Skin Deep”, in Science[2], volume 322, number 5902:
- Stem cells from bone marrow that can give rise to new immune cells are taken out from a patient, and then physicians use drugs to purposely obliterate the patient's entire immune system, a strategy called immunoablation. After that, the preharvested stem cells are infused back into the patient, where they can create fresh bone marrow and, it is hoped, a new functioning immune system.