Biocompatibility's related to the behavior of biomaterials in various contexts. The term may refer to specific properties of a material without specifying where or how the material's used(for example, that it elicits little or no immune response in a given organism, or's able to integrate with a particular cell type or tissue), or to more empirical clinical success of a whole device in which the material or materials feature. The ambiguity of the term reflects the ongoing development of insights… (
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