transplant Definition
trans·plant (trans plant′; also, and for n. always, trans′plant′)
transitive verb
- to dig up (a growing plant) from one place and plant it in another
- to remove (people, animals, etc.) from one place and resettle in another
- Surgery to transfer (tissue or an organ) from one individual or part of the body to another; graft
Etymology: ME transplaunten < LL(Ec) transplantare: see trans- & plant
intransitive verb
- to do transplanting
- to be capable of enduring transplantation
noun
- the act or an instance of transplanting
- something transplanted, as a body organ or seedling
transplant Related Forms
trans·plant′·able adjective
trans′·plan·ta′·tion (--plan tā′s̸hən) noun
trans·plant′er noun
transplant Synonyms
transplant
n.
transplant Synonyms
transplant
v.
transplant Usage Examples
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.
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