transplantverb [ I or T, usually + adv/prep ]
uk/trænˈsplɑːnt/us/trænˈsplænt/to move something, or to be moved, from one place or person to another:
The plants should be grown indoors until spring, when they can be transplanted outside.
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implant verb
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Transferring and transporting objects
- bearer
- borne
- bring
- budge
- bus
- call for sb
- drop
- ferry
- freight
- put sb down somewhere
- road haulage
- route
- shuffle
- spirit
- tear 1
- tear sb away
- tote
- transfer
- transport
- transportation
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Medical treatment: surgery
transplantnoun
uk/trænˈsplɑːnt/us/trænˈsplænt/C2 [ C or U ] a medical operation in which a new organ is put into someone's body:
a liver/kidney transplant
transplant surgery
He had a heart transplant (= doctors gave him a different, healthier heart instead of his old one).
[ C ] something, especially a new organ, that has been transplanted:
His body accepted/rejected the transplant.
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- He was given a new liver in a transplant operation.
- She received her transplant a month ago.
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Medical treatment: surgery
- ablate
- adrenalectomy
- anaesthesiology
- anastomose
- anesthesiology
- circumcise
- collagen
- eviscerate
- facelift
- frontal lobotomy
- implant
- keyhole surgery
- laminectomy
- laparoscopic
- laparoscopy
- laparotomy
- ligation
- nose job
- pump out sth
- tuck
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