chimera

In embryology: -> the individual produced by grafting of an embryonic part of one organism onto the embryo of another In biochemistry: 1) a fusion protein in which 2 different proteins are linked via peptide bonds, usually through genetic engineering 2) fusion of 2 genes not normally fused via chromosomal translocation -> p160bcr gene with c-abl in the Philadelphia chromosome associated with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML)

References

Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999