In the medical sense, a chimera is an animal or a human with body parts from another, any the same or a different species. The heading comes from the mythical creature chimera, which is said to have the guide of a lion, body of a goat, tail of a serpent and (sometimes) wings of an eagle. The practice of transplanting a body piece from another species is more commonly called xenograft.
For same species transplant, we enjoy been doing this for a long time, surrounded by organ transplant. For different species, it is mainly still contained by experiment, but xenograft is used in skin transplant for seriously adjectives patients. (Pig skin is commonly used)
Regarding your question, the answer is NO, because we can't post pictures contained by the answer box =)
What the heck is Chimera?
Monday, September 27, 2010
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