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porcine

[pawr-sahyn, -sin] / ˈpɔr saɪn, -sɪn /
ADJECTIVE
pertaining to pigs
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Russian state scientists appointed by Putin have focused on two key technologies: bioprinting, or 3D-printing living tissue, and xenotransplantation, or growing human organs inside mini-pigs, a porcine breed deemed genetically compatible to humans.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

The recipient survived for 171 days, providing early evidence that modified porcine livers can take on essential metabolic and synthetic duties in people.

From Science Daily • Dec. 7, 2025

Children who cannot have porcine gelatine in medical products will be offered an injection.

From BBC • Sep. 14, 2024

Instead, the Conservancy resorted to a five-year experimental birth control plan in 2009, injecting female bison with the contraceptive porcine zona pellucida.

From National Geographic • Jan. 18, 2024

Spanish armies traveled in a porcine cloud; drawn by the supper trough, the lean, hungry animals circled the troops like darting dogs.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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