transplant
IPA: trænspɫˈænt
noun
- An act of uprooting and moving (something), especially and archetypically a plant.
- Anything that is transplanted, especially and archetypically a plant.
- (medicine) An operation (procedure) in which tissue or an organ is transplanted: an instance of transplantation.
- (medicine) A transplanted organ or tissue: a graft.
- (US) Someone who is not native to their area of residence.
verb
- (transitive) To uproot (a growing plant), and plant it in another place.
- (transitive) To remove (something) and establish its residence in another place; to resettle or relocate.
- (transitive, medicine) To transfer (tissue or an organ) from one body to another, or from one part of a body to another.
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Examples of "transplant" in Sentences
- The bold man transplanted his hair.
- Porcine liver was transplanted to a dog.
- Who is the authority to transplant organs
- The scientists transplanted the lung of pigs.
- The demand for eyebrow transplants is increasing.
- A transplanted Briton, he is the scourge of the monarchy.
- With Cloning and Brain transplant would immortality be possible?
- Occasionally, the kidney is transplanted together with the pancreas.
- The first heart transplant was in 1967, and the moon landing in 1969.
- Transplanters automate the task of transplanting seedlings to the field.
- Devastating, says Dorry Segev, the director of clinical research in transplant surgery at Johns Hopkins.
- Persons who received blood transfusions or an organ transplant from a donor who was later identified as having had hepatitis C virus infection.
- Criminal gangs are likely exploiting a situation where demand for donor organs is outstripping supply and patients are left languishing on official transplant waiting lists.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.