Term: histocompatibility complex: a family of fifty or more genes on the sixth human chromosome that code for proteins on the surfaces of cells and that play a role in the immune response
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: bad block: (computer science) a block (usually one sector) that cannot reliably hold data
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: vehicle-borne transmission: indirect transmission of an infectious agent that occurs when a vehicle (or fomite) touches a person's body or is ingested
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: true frog: insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: virginian witch hazel: common shrub of eastern North America having small yellow flowers after the leaves have fallen
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: sisyrinchium: chiefly North American grasslike herbs
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: genus canna: type and sole genus of the Cannaceae: perennial lily-like herbs of New World tropics
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: shoveler: a worker who shovels
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: bagel: (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: rosinweed: North American perennial having a resinous odor and yellow flowers
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: skidder: a tractor used to haul logs over rough terrain