reimplantv.
/ˌriːɪmˈplɑːnt/, /ˌriːɪmˈplant/, U.S. /ˌriᵻmˈplænt/ Now chiefly Surgery and Dentistry.
transitive. To implant again; to replace after loss or removal; (Surgery) to reattach or transplant. Cf. replant v.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [verb (transitive)] > implant again
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > transplanting and grafting operations > transplant or graft [verb (transitive)] > implant > again
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a1623 W. Pemble Vindiciæ Gratiæ (1627) 7 The roote of all divine vertues is firmely reimplanted in them.
1656 Disc. Auxiliary Beauty 45 How many grave and godly matrons, usually graffe or re-implant on their..browes, the reliques, combings or cuttings of..more youthful hair?
1768 W. Smith Diss. Nerves ii. iv. 128 Thereby the divine image which was lost in Adam, is reimplanted in him.
1870 Dental Times 7 120 Dr. Wert had succeeded in reimplanting teeth in a person of twenty-two years.
1933 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 21 179/1 A careful search of the entire gland is made for adherent or imbedded parathyroids, which, if found, are reimplanted in the sternomastoid muscle.
1982 A. F. Wallace Progress Plastic Surg. viii. 85 In 1844 Joseph Pancoast successfully reimplanted a severed earlobe.
1983 Which? Sept. 392/1 Plugs of between 12 and 15 hair follicles are taken from the back and sides of the head (where the hair is still growing thickly) and reimplanted in the balding areas.
2001 Theory & Society 30 55 Upon returning home, they reimplant these habituated and newly learned schemas and resources into the structures of their native communities.
Derivatives
ˌreimˈplanted adj.
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1682 J. Howe Right Use Argument 21 We might be created [printed ereated] anew, with a reimplanted disposition to serve the ends and purposes for which we were first made.
1728 Controv. conc. Free-will & Predestination 3 This Re-implanted Image of God, is a Spark of His own Omnipotent Light.
1894 Southern Dental Jrnl. & Luminary 13 28 The ligatures were placed in such a manner as to maintain not only the reimplanted tooth in its place, but also the part of the alveolus which had been detached.
1933 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 20 9/1 Where the re-implanted kidney..had to be exposed or removed, I was able to convince myself that a major part of the parenchyma had been preserved.
2006 Injury 37 870/1 Properly to evaluate the functioning of these reimplanted limbs other criteria are involved.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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