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An organ, tissue, or structure taken from an animal and grafted into or on another animal of a different species. Such transplants usually atrophy.  

A toxin introduced from outside the patient’s body.  

Condition in which an animal’s temperature varies considerably in different situations but is not poikilothermic.  

An animal whose temperature varies considerably in different situations.  

An abnormal position of organs or parts.  

The consistent perception of an inappropriate smell when an odorant is inhaled. The smell perceived is unusual and unexpected but not unpleasant.  

The presence within a population of a pathogen of some organisms that are susceptible to an antimicrobial drug and some that are not. Heteroresistance may explain why failure to eradicate an infection occurs in some patients treated with a seemingly appropriate antibiotic.  

A perversion of vision, such as seeing objects that do not exist or misinterpreting what is seen.  

Having two or more mitochondrial DNA sources within a person, cell, or mitochondrion.  

The development of tissue at a location where that type of tissue would not normally occur.