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implant
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES silicone implant COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN embryo ▪ They will choose a shortlist of 200, who will be implanted with 10 cloned embryos . EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Dr. DeVries implanted the artificial heart ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Implant \Im*plant"\v. t. [imp. & p. p. Implanted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Implanting .] [Pref. im- in + plant: cf. F. implanter.] To plant, or infix, for the purpose of growth; to fix deeply; to instill; to inculate; to introduce; as, to implant the seeds of virtue, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a prosthesis placed permanently in tissue v. fix or set securely or deeply; "He planted a knee in the back of his opponent"; "The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum" [syn: engraft , embed , imbed , plant ] become attached to and embedded in the uterus; ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An implant is a medical device manufactured to replace a missing biological structure, support a damaged biological structure, or enhance an existing biological structure. Medical implants are man-made devices, in contrast to a transplant , which is a transplanted ...
Usage examples of implant.
Perhaps the alien invaders could transform their persons into a semblance of those they ambushed, and the entity who appeared to be Sergeant Aarhus was actually a loathsome jelly-thing waiting for a chance to implant me with its gibbering spawn.
Silicone from their breast implants was probably leaking into their breasts and would soon give them cancer and autoimmune diseases.
But for GalacTech, it meant that human bioengineering experiments could at last be carried out without involving a lot of flaky foster-mothers to carry the implanted embryos.
Although you passed through our biofilters and took our vaccine, your ocular implants were bypassed.
Marg, though the implanted blastocyst that she was host-mothering could scarcely have been causing her any inconvenience yet.
She had lost the blastocyst implant during the retaking of the tree, Bram knew.
Heather quietly entered an exclusive West Hollywood surgical clinic and underwent a breast augmentation, a blepharoplasty, a rhinoplasty, a complete rhytidectomy, a chin implant, and suction lipectomies of the thighs, abdomen, and buttocks.
The methods were similar to those employed to implant radioactive brachytherapy seeds.
Mexican television in America broadcasts not dry notices of immigration reform or Mexican consulate seminars, but splashy Jerry Springer-like talk shows, where Chicanas with dyed blond hair, breast implants and bare navels wiggle in the audience and chatter in hot tubs, unlike anything that used to be aired in the village plaza in Mexico.
Forced disconnections in burndives were an absolute no-no, especially if you had implants.
There were no entoptic generators buried in these walls to supply visual information to the implants Galiana had put in his head, and even her own aura of light was gone.
Normally quiescent organisms, such as staphylococcus, yeast, pseudomonas, or escherichia, can become deadly when they colonize the surface of some foreign object implanted inside the body.
He strove to implant this vision in the minds of Frankenstein and the others, and kept coming back again and again to the specification that all the workers ultimately produced must not only be docile, strong, and enduring, but should be able to subsist, like swine or goats, on acorns and other inexpensive roughage, with now and then a handful of berries as reward for some particularly difficult labor.
The gyri were plump and choked with fluid, and she saw the bruise at once: a purplish-black splotch fanning around the implant like a squashed bug.
Evidently Jarred had used his computer implants to order the ship to fill it for him.