Crossword clues for transplantation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Transplantation \Trans`plan*ta"tion\, n. [Cf. F. transplantation.]
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The act of transplanting, or the state of being transplanted; also, removal.
The transplantation of Ulysses to Sparta.
--Broome. (Surg.) The removal of tissues from a healthy part, and the insertion of them in another place where there is a lesion; as, the transplantation of tissues in autoplasty.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from French transplantation, noun of action from transplanter (v.), from Late Latin transplantare (see transplant (v.)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The resettlement of a group of people 2 A surgical operation in which an organ is moved from a donor to a recipient; an organ transplant 3 The uprooting of a tree and planting it in a new location
WordNet
n. the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind) [syn: resettlement, relocation]
an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient); "he had a kidney transplant" [syn: transplant, 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: transplant, transplanting]
Wikipedia
Transplantation is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering transplantation medicine. The editor-in-chief is Jeremy R. Chapman ( University of Sydney). It was established in 1963 and is published by Wolters Kluwer on behalf of The Transplantation Society.
Usage examples of "transplantation".
Together with the steroid prednisone, an anti-inflammatory agent, organ transplantation became a possibility for everyone.
One minor physiological variation between humans and cows or sheep was very significant for my purposes: In human females the length of the oviducts before they unite to form the corpus uteri is short, leaving less time and space to catch the fertilized egg before it reaches the endometrium and undergoes impregnation there: at which point there can be no hope of transplantation.
If USE explorers venture into Latin America, they can bring back seeds of the Hevea brasiliensis rubber tree for greenhouse cultivation, and ultimate transplantation to a tropical country friendly to USE.
Out of solicitude for the men's relatives, who would have been crushed by the expense of caring for so large and flower-consuming a mass grave, the authorities assumed full responsibility for maintenance and perhaps even for transplantation.
Even operations on the brain itself that involved transplantations from other brains and the insertion of microcomputers.
Sometimes it would be indigenous to the planet, and in other cases it would be survival transplantations from the planet Earth or from one of the other several systems where great religions once had nourished.