Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun therapeutic_cloning

1 sense of therapeutic cloning

Sense 1
therapeutic cloning, biomedical cloning -- (nuclear transplantation of a patient's own cells to make an oocyte from which immune-compatible cells (especially stem cells) can be derived for transplant)
       => somatic cell nuclear transplantation, somatic cell nuclear transfer, SCNT, nuclear transplantation -- (moving a cell nucleus and its genetic material from one cell to another)
       => cloning -- (a general term for the research activity that creates a copy of some biological entity (a gene or organism or cell))