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transplant Definition

trans·plant (trans plant′; also, and for n. always, trans′plant′)

transitive verb

  1. to dig up (a growing plant) from one place and plant it in another
  2. to remove (people, animals, etc.) from one place and resettle in another
  3. 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

  1. to do transplanting
  2. to be capable of enduring transplantation

noun

  1. the act or an instance of transplanting
  2. 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.

transplanting, transplantation, introducing a donated organ, skin graft; heart transplant, cardiac transplant, kidney transplant, eye transplant, etc.; see also operation 4.

transplant Synonyms

transplant

v.

reset, reorient, transpose, remove, graft, recondition, emigrate, readapt, shift over, revamp.

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.