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rejection

[ ri-jek-shuhn ]

noun

  1. the act or process of rejecting.

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  2. the state of being rejected.

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  3. something that is rejected.


rejection

  1. A process in which the immune system of a body attacks an organ or tissue, either its own or tissue transplanted into it from another organism. ( See xenotransplantation .)
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Notes

Rejection is the most serious problem faced in surgery involving organ transplants. Drugs are used to suppress the immune system after organ transplant in order to prevent the rejection of and eventual death of the transplanted tissue.
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ԴDzr·tDz noun
  • r·tDz noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of rejection1

First recorded in 1545–55; from Latin ŧ𳦳پō-, stem of ŧ𳦳پō “a throwing back”; equivalent to reject + -ion
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Example Sentences

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For example, the rejection of the heliocentric model of the solar system with one that accurately places the sun at its center.

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State Department employees are now learning what it's like to live under Rubio's total rejection of the American compassion and freedom he once claimed to admire.

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Yet through all the retirements and the restlessness, the rejections and the reincarnations, Parker has always managed to land on his feet.

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Thank you for the rejection, because it was the beginning of a rebirth.

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After the rejections started rolling in, Nan Zhong tried to figure out what had gone wrong.

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