Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To uproot and replant (a growing plant).
- intransitive verb To transfer from one place or residence to another; resettle or relocate.
- intransitive verb To transfer (tissue, a body structure, or an organ) from one body to another body or from one part of the body to another part.
- intransitive verb To transfer (tissue, a body structure, or an organ) from an animal or cadaver to a person.
- intransitive verb To be capable of being transplanted.
- noun The act or process of transplanting something.
- noun Medicine An operation in which an organ, body part, or other tissue is transplanted.
- noun Something that is transplanted, especially.
- noun A plant that has been uprooted and replanted in another place.
- noun Medicine An organ, body part, or other tissue that has been transplanted, as from one person to another.
- noun A person who has resettled in a different place.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or process of transplanting; specifically, the carrying of bacterial organisms from one medium to another for purposes of culture.
- noun That which is transplanted; specifically, in forestry, a seedling which has been transplanted once or several times.
- To plant anew in a different place.
- In general, to remove from one place to another; especially, to remove and establish for residence in another place.
- In surgery, to transfer from one part of the body or from one person to another. See
transplantation , 3.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To remove, and plant in another place.
- transitive verb To remove, and settle or establish for residence in another place.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
uproot (agrowing plant ), andplant it in anotherplace . - verb transitive To
remove (something) andestablish itsresidence in another place; toresettle orrelocate . - verb transitive, medicine To
transfer (tissue or anorgan ) from onebody to another, or from one part of a body to another. - noun An act of
uprooting andmoving (something). - noun Anything that is transplanted.
- noun medicine An
operation in which tissue or an organ is transplanted. - noun medicine A transplanted organ or tissue.
- noun US Someone who is not native to their area of residence.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
- verb place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient
- noun the act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location
- verb transfer from one place or period to another
- verb lift and reset in another soil or situation
- noun an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient)
- verb be transplantable
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Once your child has completed the evaluation process, and we've determined a transplant is the best option, he will be placed on the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) waiting list to receive a kidney transplant from a suitable donor.
The Kidney Transplant Waiting List, United Network for Organ 2005
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The data are skewed by the US system that allows just about anyone -- even those who are so desperately ill the chance of surviving a transplant is almost nil and people over 80 years old -- to be listed on the official organ list.
Nancy Scheper-Hughes: Take a Deep Breath (Inhale): Organ Panics Nancy Scheper-Hughes 2010
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The data are skewed by the US system that allows just about anyone -- even those who are so desperately ill the chance of surviving a transplant is almost nil and people over 80 years old -- to be listed on the official organ list.
Nancy Scheper-Hughes: Take a Deep Breath (Inhale): Organ Panics Nancy Scheper-Hughes 2010
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The data are skewed by the US system that allows just about anyone -- even those who are so desperately ill the chance of surviving a transplant is almost nil and people over 80 years old -- to be listed on the official organ list.
Nancy Scheper-Hughes: Take a Deep Breath (Inhale): Organ Panics Nancy Scheper-Hughes 2010
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As a matter of interest at least 8 cases of rabies worldwide have been determined as human-to-human transfer when a patient received a corneal transplant from a person who died from rabies but the cause of death was not known at the time of harvest.
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As a matter of interest at least 8 cases of rabies worldwide have been determined as human-to-human transfer when a patient received a corneal transplant from a person who died from rabies but the cause of death was not known at the time of harvest.
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With Cloning and Brain transplant would immortality be possible?
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Persons who received blood transfusions or an organ transplant from a donor who was later identified as having had hepatitis C virus infection.
Hepatitis C 2010
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Devastating, says Dorry Segev, the director of clinical research in transplant surgery at Johns Hopkins.
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Compared with dialysis payments, every transplant from a living, unrelated donor saves an expected present value of almost $100,000 in medical costs, according to a 2003 American Journal of Transplantation article by Matas and Mark Schnitzler, an economist then at Washington University in St. Louis and now at the Saint Louis University Center for Outcomes Research.
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