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placental-blood transplant

pla·cen·tal-blood trans·plant


noun 
Definition:
 
transfusion with fetal blood: use of blood drawn from the umbilical cord soon after birth to provide blood-forming stem cells for somebody whose bone marrow has ceased to form them. The recipient need not be related to the donor baby.

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