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STEM-CELL RESEARCH
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Research on stem cells and their use in medicine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("stem-cell research" is a kind of...):
biological research (scientific research conducted by biologists)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stem-cell research"):
embryonic stem-cell research (biological research on stem cells derived from embryos and on their use in medicine)