GVHD

See also: GvHD

English

Etymology

Initialism.

Noun

GVHD (uncountable)

1. (pathology) Initialism of graft-versus-host disease.
   • 2005, Donald Hall, The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 121:

     Post-BMT, her body would show signs of GVHD, which is graft-versus-host disease; the new marrow tries to reject the body it occupies. Her mouth would be assaulted by radiation before the transplant.