- a variation of chimerical.
chimeric
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The cells receive a chimeric, or artificial, antigen receptor known as a CAR, which is designed to bind specifically to CD19.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
They become "chimeric antigen receptor T-cells" - or CAR T-cells - and their numbers are greatly expanded in the lab to make millions of copies.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2026
She compares the human body to a coral reef, where animals, plants, and microscopic organisms “cohabitate as one huge and beautiful chimeric metaorganism.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025
George, a top agent at a London intelligence agency, meanders through the chimeric bowels of a posh nightclub, hunting for a contact who’s got some bad news waiting.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2025
It is equally a matter of course that I, for my part, was convinced that everything in the shape of mesmerism was the merest chimeric superstition, and would listen to nothing more on the subject.
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
