Definition of transplantation in English:
transplantation
noun ˌtransplɑːnˈteɪʃ(ə)nˌtranzplɑːnˈteɪʃ(ə)n
mass noun1The process of taking an organ or living tissue and implanting it in another part of the body or in another body.
patients undergoing lung transplantation
the transplantation of donor stem cells
count noun experts in the field of transplantations
Example sentencesExamples
- The demand for liver transplantations is growing rapidly.
- She was transferred to the hospital for further treatment and went on to have a successful heart transplantation.
- Have they thought of lung transplantation in your case?
- Bone marrow transplants are a common form of stem cell transplantation.
- They died because not enough organs were donated for transplantation.
- The hospital has also conducted about 200 transplantations.
- The possibility of a kidney transplantation should not be excluded on non-medical grounds.
- Corneas can be retrieved for transplantation as viable tissues, and so can skin, for even up to twenty-four hours after death in a conventional sense.
- Pancreatic transplantation is offered only to people with very severe diabetes and renal failure.
- Most of the stem cells died after transplantation.
2The movement or transfer of someone or something to another place or situation.
the proposal seeks felling or transplantation of 468 trees
large-scale transplantation of technologies from abroad
Example sentencesExamples
- The difficult transplantation of the wild plants meant that domestic plantations were not easily founded.
- It sought to understand Australian history more broadly as a transplantation of European civilisation.
- Supervising the move was the director of the botanical garden, who has been researching cactus transplantation since 1989.
- Transplantation of slum dwellers from the cities to other areas has been under way.
- The ease of transplantation of tobacco stands in stark contrast to the caffeine crops.