Object

• seedling: Transplant the seedlings into your open plot, or a large pot, during the spring.

• islet: By transplanting a new pancreas into a diabetic patient we also transplant the islets.

Converse of object

• undergo: She was rushed to hospital, where, at the age of 21, she underwent a heart transplant.

Adjective modifier

• allogeneic: Allogeneic transplants are also promising for mantle cell lymphoma.

• autologous: They may receive intensive chemotherapy, and in some cases autologous stem cell transplants, such treatments need very skilled nursing and medical care.

• heart-lung: In 2005, 139 heart and seven heart-lung transplants were carried out.

• renal: Recent studies have included people with treatment with schizophrenia, children with cystic fibrosis and adults with renal transplant.

• life-saving: She needed large amounts of blood before receiving a life-saving bone marrow transplant, donated by her brother.

• unrelated: There is now a large demand for CAMPATH-1 antibodies to facilitate unrelated donor transplants.

Modifies a noun

• recipient: The oldest organ transplant recipient received a new kidney at the age of 85.

• rejection: Thus ANN tools could be used for improved donor kidney allocation and for exploring the role of HLA in transplant rejection.

• co-ordinator: Once you leave hospital, your transplant co-ordinator will be your main contact with your transplant team.

• surgeon: Transplant surgeons typically earn $ 200,000 to $ 300,000 per year, placing their income in the upper ¼ of 1 % of Americans.

• coordinator: Not everyone is a suitable organ donor and the decision to request the removal of organs is made by the doctors or transplant coordinators.

Noun used with modifier

• marrow: What can go wrong There are up to 2,000 patients waiting for a bone marrow transplant at any given time.

• kidney: Last year 461 people received a living kidney transplant - a 21 % increase on the previous year.

• liver: There is now a whole section on liver transplant in the surgery for primary liver cancer section.

• cornea: Over 2,200 people have their sight restored by cornea transplants every year.

• organ: Organ transplant is not a miracle cure by any means.

• islet: Balance began 2001 with a series of reports on the islet transplant team at Edmonton, Canada.