transplant
verb /transˈplɑːnt 
/ /tranzˈplɑːnt / [with object]
/ /tranzˈplɑːnt / [with object]1Move or transfer (someone or something) to another place or situation: it was proposed to transplant the club to the vacant site (as adjective transplanted) she’s a transplanted New Yorker...
- If you took an Irish Catholic or a Polish Catholic person and transplanted him or her in southern Italy, would the guilt complex fade away with the sunshine and wine therapy?
- Ok you may say that they were dangerous and you were giving the people who lived in them a new start by transplanting them out into suburbia.
- I do it all the time, especially in word processing, when I want to transplant a sentence from one location to another in one of my hellishly long essays.
Synonyms
transfer, transport, move, remove, shift, convey, displace, relocate, reposition, resettle, take, carry, fetch, bring
1.1Replant (a plant) in another place: lift and transplant bulbs when they are becoming overcrowded...
- The seedlings can be left in these pots until planted into the flowerbeds, or can be transplanted into hanging baskets or window boxes when large enough to handle.
- Mid winter is perfect for repotting your indoor plants since many plants need to be transplanted into larger containers every two to three years.
- Flowering bulbs can be transplanted, if done carefully, into decorative containers.
Synonyms
replant, repot, relocate;
uproot
2Take (living tissue or an organ) and implant it in another part of the body or in another body: a kidney was transplanted from one identical twin to another (as adjective transplanted) the rejection of transplanted organs...
- Many different tissues can be transplanted such as whole organs like the heart, or cells as in bone marrow transplantation.
- Kidneys were the first organs to be successfully transplanted.
- Since there was no artificial liver or heart equivalent to the artificial kidney, if these transplanted organs did not function immediately, death was inevitable.
Synonyms
graft, transfer, implant
noun /ˈtransplɑːnt / /ˈtranzplɑːnt /
/ /ˈtranzplɑːnt /1An operation in which an organ or tissue is transplanted: a heart transplant [mass noun]: kidneys available for transplant...
- A leading clergyman who has bounced back after a transplant operation and surgery for cancer is facing a third major operation this week.
- He's had a heart transplant operation and it's proved successful.
- He underwent a transplant operation four-and-a-half years ago, but the kidney donated by his father was rejected.
1.1An organ or tissue which is transplanted: a drug to prevent the body rejecting bone marrow transplants...
- Another theory is that a woman's higher oestrogen levels make her organs more prone to rejection and at the same time make it more likely that her body will reject an organ transplant.
- The transplant rejects the body rather than the other way around, a very nasty situation called graft versus host disease.
- You may have to take medicine for the rest of your life to prevent your body from rejecting the transplant.
2A person or thing that has been moved to a new place or situation: both old-time residents and new transplants have deep loyalty to their community the trees were bare-rooted transplants...
- But hey, if they wiped out its whole population and moved in transplants from Center City, I wouldn't complain!
- The Gang actually was a band of Florida transplants who moved north for bigger purses.
Derivatives
transplantable
/ adjective ...- And they're working on the transgenic pig that will grow transplantable organs.
- Recent advances in human tissue transplantation have created an exploding commercial industry for the purpose of supplying hospitals and clinics with transplantable human tissue.
- We review the evidence and arguments that expose these problems and present an alternative ethical framework to guide the procurement of transplantable organs.
transplanter
/ noun ...- He introduced renal dialysis, was the physician to the first kidney transplanters, and brought the Howard Hughes Medical Institute into being.
- However, Lock is interviewing the people really involved: relatives and recipients, transplanters and harvesters.
- At first, researchers modified a Holland transplanter by adding a front coulter to slice through cover crop residues, which worked well in moist, mellow soils.
Origin
Late Middle English (as a verb describing the repositioning of a plant): from late Latin transplantare, from Latin trans- 'across' + plantare 'to plant'. The noun, first in sense 2, dates from the mid 18th century.