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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
histocompatibility is a noun meaning "condition in which the cells of one tissue can survive in the presence of cells of another tissue". It carries one recorded sense.
condition in which the cells of one tissue can survive in the presence of cells of another tissue
“a successful graft or transplant requires a high degree of histocompatibility”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for histocompatibility come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.