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n. (context genetics English) An artificial hybrid cell produced by introducing nuclear material from one organism into a cell (of the same or different species) from which the nucleus has been removed
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Cybrid may refer to:
- A medical term referring to a cytoplasmic hybrid
- In the Earthsiege computer game universe, Cybrids are a race of artificially intelligent machines
- In the Hyperion Cantos novels of Dan Simmons, a cybrid is an artificial intelligence in a human body
- In comic books, Cybrid is a comic book character published by Maximum Press.
- A paintball marker named Cybrid and created by Stryker.
- Cybernetics + Hybrid.
Usage examples of "cybrid".
Do you remember that the woman Lamia had carnal relations with the cybrid of John Keats?
After the cybrid abomination was destroyed, this child was born to Brawne Lamia on the world of Hyperion.
It was the second time she had mentioned her father -- I assumed she was speaking of the Keats cybrid -- but I did not stop to ask her about that.
His Holiness now knows that this cybrid spawn is not only the agent of the Core, Federico .
Holiness knows where the cybrid spawn and her dupes are at this very moment.
Then he died, was reborn -- after a fashion -- as a cybrid persona, and died again as a man.
The fourth pilgrim, the Hegemony Consul, takes an ancient spacecraft whose AI is inhabited with the essence of the dead John Keats cybrid and returns to explore the ruins of the Hegemony.
I whispered, looking toward the dining hall where the cybrid Old Architect was having lunch with a few of his oldest apprentices even as we spoke.
Planck-space transit and humans need never have learned of the experiments if other elements of the Core had not revealed this fact to the first John Keats cybrid persona four centuries ago -- but I agree with those humans and those Core elements who consider this act as unethical, a violation of privacy.
They devised the cybrid creature known as John Keats -- a human personality imbedded in an AI persona carried in a human body connected to the Core via Planck-space interface.
Core -- elements devoted to preserving not only the human race but some sort of alliance with your species -- destroyed one iteration of the John Keats cybrid, but a second was created and succeeded in its primary mission.
I asked, thinking of the prophecy that the child of the John Keats cybrid would be the One Who Teaches.
Then they created the John Keats cybrid -- a full attempt at simulating an empathic organism with the body and DNA of a human being, and the Core-stored memories and personality of a cybrid.
And this cybrid, Void Which Binds -- connected, ARN-ied, DNA-engineered, nanotech-enhanced, terribly mutated knight .
Aenea was an architect, largely self-trained except for her adolescent years with the cybrid Mr.