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incompatibility

 [in″kom-pat″ĭ-bil´ĭ-te]
the quality of being incompatible.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

in·com·pat·i·bil·i·ty

(in'kom-pat'i-bil'i-tē),
1. The quality of being incompatible.
2. A means of classifying bacterial plasmids; two plasmids are incompatible if they cannot coexist in one host cell.
Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

incompatibility

Transfusion medicine See Transfusion reaction. See ABO incompatibility, Rh incompatibility.
McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

in·com·pat·i·bil·i·ty

(in'kŏm-pat'i-bil'i-tē)
1. The quality of being incompatible.
2. A means of classifying bacterial plasmids; two plasmids are incompatible if they cannot coexist in one host cell.
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012

incompatibility

  1. a mismatch between cells of different organisms. see SELF-INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2. the inability of particular PLASMIDS (within the same incompatibility group) to co-exist in the same cell line.
Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005

in·com·pat·i·bil·i·ty

(in'kŏm-pat'i-bil'i-tē)
1. The quality of being incompatible.
2. A means of classifying bacterial plasmids.
Medical Dictionary for the Dental Professions © Farlex 2012
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