implantation

[ im-plan-tey-shuhn ]

noun

1. the act of implanting.
2. the state of being implanted.
3. Pathology.
   1. the movement of cells to a new region.
   2. metastasis, when spontaneous.
4. Medicine/Medical. the application of solid medicine underneath the skin.
5. Embryology. the attachment of the early embryo to the lining of the uterus.

Word History and Origins

Origin of implantation¹

First recorded in 1570–80; implant + -ation

Example Sentences

By this point, the embryo is ready for implantation into the uterus, which kicks off the whole development process.

From Singularity Hub 

The highly invasive nature of the implantation procedure means the devices are still only used for research in a very small number of patients.

From Singularity Hub 

Using a test that resembles implantation into a uterus but in a culture dish, the blastoids attached and continued to develop, with some reorganizing into structures that mimic the next stage of development.

From Singularity Hub 

They used 8,789 time-lapse videos of developing embryos to train an algorithm that predicts the likelihood of successful embryo implantation.

From Singularity Hub 

Using the antibiotic envelope led to an additional 40 percent reduction in major device-related infection during the first year after implantation.

From Ozy

Studies have repeatedly shown that Plan B ok “does not inhibit implantation.”

From The Daily Beast

Even if morning-after pills prevented implantation, they would still work as intended: as safe contraception, not abortion pills.

From The Daily Beast

Since the FDA approved Plan B in 1999, repeated studies have shown the drug does not inhibit implantation.

From The Daily Beast

IUDs, also named in the Hobby Lobby and Conestoga suits, almost certainly can inhibit implantation.

From The Daily Beast

They do not, for example, refuse to cover birth control pills, many of which the FDA also warns could stop implantation.

From The Daily Beast

(b) Solid Inoculum (or the implantation of capsules containing fluid cultivations).

From Project Gutenberg

During the implantation of conjugial love, the love of the sex inverts itself, and becomes the chaste love of the sex, n. 99.

From Project Gutenberg

The pricking of the needle may carry in epithelium and implantation dermoids may arise.

From Project Gutenberg

Its line of implantation at the forehead was usually concealed by the hair itself.

From Project Gutenberg

He changed death into life,—taking away the sting—the implantation—of it, which is sin.

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