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S: NMDP – https://bethematch.org/transplant-basics/how-blood-stem-cell-transplants-work/ (last access: 11 January 2024); AMS – https://www.cancer.org/cancer/managing-cancer/treatment-types/stem-cell-transplant.html (last access: 11 January 2024)

N: 1. – stem (n): In modern linguistics, the sense of “part of a word that remains unchanged through inflection” is from 1830. In biology, stem cell is attested by 1885.
– cell (n): The word was used in 14c., figuratively, of brain “compartments” as the abode of some faculty; it was used in biology by 17c. of various cavities (wood structure, segments of fruit, bee combs), gradually focusing to the modern sense of “basic structure of all living organisms” (which OED dates to 1845).
– transplant (n): mid-15c., from Late Latin transplantare “plant again in a different place,” from Latin trans “across, beyond” + plantare “to plant”. Extended to people (1550s) and then to organs or tissue (1786).

2. Stem cell transplant is a medical procedure by which healthy stem cells are transplanted into your bone marrow or your blood. This restores your body’s ability to create the red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets it needs.

3. There are two main types of stem cell transplants:

  • Autologous transplant: stem cells come from your own body. Doctors remove or rescue stem cells from blood or bone marrow before the intensive chemotherapy or radiation therapy treatment begins. After that treatment, stem cells are returned to your body, restoring your immune system and your body’s ability to produce blood cells and fight infection.
  • Allogenic transplant: stem cells come from a donor. The donor’s stem cells are given to the patient after the chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy.

4. Although “stem cell transplant” and “bone marrow transplant” are used as synonyms, there are differences in the procedures done to obtain stem cells. In a stem cell transplant, stem cells come from patient’s or donor’s bloodstream, while in a bone marrow transplant stem cells are from patient’s or donor’s bone marrow.

5. Cultural Interrelation: We can mention Imaging in Stem Cell Transplant and Cell-based Therapy (2017) by Tarun Pandey

S: 1. Etymonline – https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=stem ; https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=cell ; https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=transplant (last access: 11 January 2024); 2&3. ASCO – https://www.cancer.net/navigating-cancer-care/how-cancer-treated/bone-marrowstem-cell-transplantation/what-bone-marrow-transplant-stem-cell-transplant#:~:text=A%20bone%20marrow%2Fstem%20cell,cells%2C%20and%20platelets%20it%20needs. (last access: 11 January 2024); 4. CRUK – https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/non-hodgkin-lymphoma/treatment/transplants/what-is-a-stem-cell-or-bone-marrow-transplant#:~:text=A%20stem%20cell%20transplant%20uses,most%20common%20type%20of%20transplant. (last access: 11 January 2024); 5. GB – https://www.google.es/books/edition/Imaging_in_Stem_Cell_Transplant_and_Cell/BtwlDwAAQBAJ?hl=es&gbpv=0

SYN: 1. peripheral blood stem cell transplantation, PBSCT, peripheral stem cell transplantation, peripheral blood stem cell transplant, peripheral blood stem cell grafting. 2. hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation, HSCT.  (depending on context). 3. blood stem cell transplant. 4. blood stem cell transplantation.

S: 1. GDT – https://vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/fiche-gdt/fiche/17010588/greffe-de-cellules-souches-du-sang-peripherique (last access: 11 January 2024). 2. TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=greffe+de+cellules+souches+h%C3%A9matopo%C3%AF%C3%A9tiques&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 11 January 2024). 3. DTMe – https://dtme.ranm.es/buscador.aspx?NIVEL_BUS=3&LEMA_BUS=trasplante%20de%20progenitores%20hematopoy%C3%A9ticos (last access: 11 January 2024); DPTM – https://dptm.es/dptm/?term=1856974 (last access: 11 January 2024). 4. Libro rojo/Cosnautas (last access: 11 January 2024).

CR: cancer, cancerous, cancerology, complete blood count, donation, graft, hematology, immune system, immunology, leukemia, stem cell, therapy.