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transplant


transplant [verb trans-plant, -plahnt; noun trans-plant, -plahnt] ExamplesWord Origin verb (used with object)

  1. to remove (a plant) from one place and plant it in another.
  2. Surgery. to transfer (an organ, tissue, etc.) from one part of the body to another or from one person or animal to another.
  3. to move from one place to another.
  4. to bring (a family, colony, etc.) from one country, region, etc., to another for settlement; relocate.

verb (used without object)

  1. to undergo or accept transplanting: to transplant easily.

noun

  1. the act or process of transplanting.
  2. a plant, organ, person, etc., that has been transplanted.

Origin of transplant 1400–50; late Middle English Late Latin trānsplantāre, equivalent to Latin trāns- trans- + plantāre to plant Related formstrans·plant·a·ble, adjectivetrans·plan·ta·tion, nountrans·plant·er, nounre·trans·plant, verb (used with object)re·trans·plan·ta·tion, nounun·trans·plant·ed, adjective Examples from the Web for transplantation Contemporary Examples of transplantation

  • One Israeli woman who went abroad for transplantation, and who asked to remain anonymous, shared her story with The Daily Beast.

    Israel’s Campaign To Halt Organ Trafficking Tourism

    Rob Verger

    March 18, 2012

  • Historical Examples of transplantation

  • Transplantation is not always successful in the matter of flowers or maidens.

    Sister Carrie

    Theodore Dreiser

  • If the parent root be good, he thinks it will flourish in every soil, and perhaps acquire fresh vigour from transplantation.

    Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton

    John Barrow

  • For his dear Philip, too, nothing could be better than a transplantation into other soil.

    The Bride of the Nile, Complete

    Georg Ebers

  • Its range, however, has been extended by transplantation to many states.

    Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others

    James Alexander Henshall

  • His merit is the perfection of style, which will admit of no transplantation.

    Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol I of 2)

    John Addington Symonds

  • British Dictionary definitions for transplantation transplant verb (trænsˈplɑːnt)

    1. (tr) to remove or transfer (esp a plant) from one place to another
    2. (intr) to be capable of being transplanted
    3. surgery to transfer (an organ or tissue) from one part of the body to another or from one person or animal to another during a grafting or transplant operation

    noun (ˈtrænsˌplɑːnt)

    1. surgery
      1. the procedure involved in such a transfer
      2. the organ or tissue transplanted

    Derived Formstransplantable, adjectivetransplantation, nountransplanter, noun Word Origin and History for transplantation transplant v.

    mid-15c., from Late Latin transplantare “plant again in a different place,” from Latin trans- “across” (see trans-) + plantare “to plant” (see plant (v.)). Extended to people (1550s) and then to organs or tissue (1786). Related: Transplanted; transplanting.

    transplant n.

    1756, in reference to plants, from transplant (v.); in reference to surgical transplanting of human organs or tissue it is first recorded 1951, but not in widespread use until Christiaan Barnard performed the world’s first successful heart transplant in 1967 at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa. Meaning “person not native to his place of residence” is recorded from 1961.

    transplantation in Medicine transplantation [trăns′plăn-tā′shən] n.

    1. The act or process of transplanting a tissue or an organ from one body or body part to another.

    transplant [trăns-plănt′] v.

    1. To transfer a tissue or an organ from one body or body part to another.

    n.

    1. The act or process of transplanting.
    2. The tissue or organ so used.

    transplantation in Science transplant [trăns′plănt′]

    1. A plant that has been uprooted and replanted.
    2. A surgical procedure in a human or animal in which a body tissue or organ is transferred from a donor to a recipient or from one part of the body to another. Heart, lung, liver, kidney, corneal, and bone-marrow transplants are performed to treat life-threatening illness. Donated tissue must be histocompatible with that of the recipient to prevent immunological rejection. See also graft.
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