transplant

[trans-plant, -plahnt, trans-plant, -plahnt]

verb (used with object)

1. to remove (a plant) from one place and plant it in another.

2. Surgery.,  to transfer (an organ, tissue, etc.) from one part of the body to another or from one person or animal to another.

3. to move from one place to another.

4. to bring (a family, colony, etc.) from one country, region, etc., to another for settlement; relocate.

verb (used without object)

1. to undergo or accept transplanting.

   to transplant easily.

noun

1. the act or process of transplanting.

2. a plant, organ, person, etc., that has been transplanted.

transplant

verb

1. (tr) to remove or transfer (esp a plant) from one place to another

2. (intr) to be capable of being transplanted

3. surgery to transfer (an organ or tissue) from one part of the body to another or from one person or animal to another during a grafting or transplant operation

noun

1. surgery

   1. the procedure involved in such a transfer

   2. the organ or tissue transplanted

transplant

1. A plant that has been uprooted and replanted.

2. A surgical procedure in a human or animal in which a body tissue or organ is transferred from a donor to a recipient or from one part of the body to another. Heart, lung, liver, kidney, corneal, and bone-marrow transplants are performed to treat life-threatening illness. Donated tissue must be histocompatible with that of the recipient to prevent immunological rejection.

3. See also graft

Other Word Forms

• transplantation noun
• transplanter noun
• transplantable adjective
• retransplant verb (used with object)
• retransplantation noun
• untransplanted adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of transplant¹

1400–50; late Middle English < Late Latin trānsplantāre, equivalent to Latin trāns- trans- + plantāre to plant

Example Sentences

Having lived with a respiratory illness since the age of two, his health deteriorated and he was told he needed a double lung transplant.

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Once I got through that ordeal—months of chemotherapy, a bone-marrow transplant—I took the task up again, this time with new zeal.

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After receiving the transplants, the mice no longer needed immune suppressive drugs or insulin at any point during the six-month study.

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Two people who met through tragic circumstances have united for a life-saving kidney transplant.

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Seven months later, he had one more chance to prove heart transplants could be life saving.

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Related Words

• emigrate 
• graft 
• immigrate 
• remove 
• uproot