Definition of "chimeric" [chi•mer•ic]

• Like a chimera. (adjective)
• Imaginary, fanciful. (adjective)
• Pertaining to a genetic chimera. (adjective)

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• "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."
• "Pretreatment of prenatally transplanted allogeneic marrow with VEGF and SCF delays allograft rejection in chimeric mice."
• "The primary vehicles for introducing fluorescent protein chimeric gene sequences into cells are genetically engineered bacterial plasmids and viral vectors."