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transplant

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Word definitions for transplant in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An act of uprooting and moving (something). 2 Anything that is transplanted. 3 (context medicine English) An operation in which tissue or an organ is transplanted. 4 (context medicine English) A transplanted organ or tissue. 5 (context US English) ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Transplant or Transplantation may refer to:

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a transplant operation ▪ He is too weak to undergo a transplant operation. an organ transplant (= an operation to put an organ from one person’s body into another person’s body ) ▪ Up to 5,000 people are waiting for ...

Usage examples of transplant.

Where transplants between non-twin humans are called allografts, a transplant from one species to another is called a xenograft.

If a bacterial strain compatible with myelin toxin could be found, the transplanted genes would multiply along with the bacteria.

Since I have been here the beautification of his garden has been his chief object, and he has made a very respectable waterfall, a rushing stream, a small lake, a rustic bamboo bridge, and several grass banks, and has transplanted several large trees.

When Ted Roger was a patient at Metro, be became friendly with another patieDt, Maury, who bad had a kidney transplant.

If society moves away from the body-as-person concept, and instead accepts social personhood, it could lead to far-reaching changes, including granting personhood status to uploaded human consciousness and brains maintained outside of bodies, or transplanted into synthetic bodies.

Earth have studied various forms of Outer World life - the only portion of the Pacific Project that has been truly secret - and the transplanted Terrestrian life is akeady beginning to show certain changes on the subcellular level.

I got home, Dolores was talking to the refrigerator, mumbling about the effect of a plaintiff from Wisconsin suing joint tortfeasors from Hawaii and New York in Nevada for negligently transplanting a kidney in Florida.

Under such conditions it increases very fast, and the bulbs may be transplanted with advantage every other year after the tops have died off.

A radical solution, which works for some cancers but not others, is to kill all the cells in your bone marrow and repopulate the remaining barren terrain with bone marrow transplanted from a suitable donor.

Without expecting game, some useful plant might be met with, and the young naturalist was delighted with discovering a sort of wild spinach, belonging to the order of chenopodiaceae, and numerous specimens of cruciferae, belonging to the cabbage tribe, which it would certainly be possible to cultivate by transplanting.

Way back in their history, but well within the scientific era, the Dominionites had discovered some sort of time capsule indicating that their far ancestors had been transplanted there from another planet.

Sartorius is clearly a genius, a scientific mind of the first order: he invents, among other things, electroencephalography, transplanting and artificial organs.

The best chance to save a Fanconi child is a bone-marrow transplant from a perfectly matched sibling donor.

This process is most tedious and is by no means complete when the hide is completely transplanted, as the subject must be rendered mute by destruction of the vocal cords, made to use all fours in walking, and submitted to such degradation as to completely blight all reason.

Quintus and his neighbor Glidas, a transplanted Gaul with dealings in both provinces, invited Clodius and Galba to join them on the dining couches.