Crossword clues for transplant
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Transplant \Trans*plant"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transplanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Transplanting.] [F. transplanter, L. transplantare; trans across, over + plantare to plant. See Plant.]
To remove, and plant in another place; as, to transplant trees.
--Dryden.-
To remove, and settle or establish for residence in another place; as, to transplant inhabitants.
Being transplanted out of his cold, barren diocese of St. David into a warmer climate.
--Clarendon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.
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) Someone who is not native to their area of residence. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To uproot (a growing plant), and plant it in another place. 2 (context transitive English) To remove (something) and establish its residence in another place; to resettle or relocate. 3 (context transitive medicine English) To transfer (tissue or an organ) from one body to another, or from one part of a body to another.
WordNet
n. (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient [syn: graft]
an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient); "he had a kidney transplant" [syn: transplantation, organ transplant]
the act of uprooting and moving a plant to a new location; "the transplant was successful"; "too frequent transplanting is not good for plants" [syn: transplanting, transplantation]
v. lift and reset in another soil or situation; "Transplant the young rice plants" [syn: transfer]
be transplantable; "These delicate plants do not transplant easily"
place athe organ of a donor into the body of a recipient [syn: graft]
transfer from one place or period to another; "The ancient Greek story was transplanted into Modern America" [syn: transfer, transpose]
Wikipedia
Transplant or Transplantation may refer to:
"Transplant" is the second episode of the eighth season of the American television medical drama series House and the 157th overall episode of the series and features the introduction of Charlyne Yi as Dr. Chi Park. It aired on Fox on October 10, 2011.
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.