| 单词 | transplant |
| 释义 | transplant (once / 960 pages) vn Use the verb transplant to describe what you do when you move a cactus into a bigger container, or what a doctor does when she places a donor organ — like a kidney or lung — into the body of a patient. When you transplant your favorite rose bush, you carefully dig it up and re-plant it in another spot in the yard, maybe one that gets more sunlight. You can also use the word as a noun to describe the act of doing such a thing: "The liver transplant was a success." The word's origin is simple: the Latin trans, or "across," plus plantare, which means "to plant." WORD FAMILYtransplant: transplantable, transplantation, transplanted, transplanter, transplanting, transplants+/transplantation: transplantations/transplanter: transplanters/transplanting: transplantings USAGE EXAMPLESIt's the day Whalen received a liver transplant and a second chance at life. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) In the end, her life hinged on one thing - a heart transplant. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) At the time of his son's death, Mr Scully-Sloan was also desperately ill with liver disease and awaiting a transplant. BBC(Dec 31, 2016) 1v transfer from one place or period to another The ancient Greek story was transplanted into Modern America Syn|Hyper transfer, transpose shift move from one setting or context to another 2v lift and reset in another soil or situation Transplant the young rice plants Syn|Hyper transfer displace cause to move, usually with force or pressure 3v place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient Syn|Hyper graft enter, infix, insert, introduce put or introduce into something 4v be transplantable These delicate plants do not transplant easily Syn|Hyper transfer lift and reset in another soil or situation be have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) 5n the act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location the transplant did not flower until the second year Syn|Hyper transplantation, transplanting movement the act of changing the location of something 6n an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient) he had a kidney transplant Syn|Hypo|Hyper organ transplant, transplantation corneal graft, corneal transplant, keratoplasty a surgical procedure in which part or all of a damaged or diseased cornea is replaced by healthy corneal tissue from a donor xenotransplant, xenotransplantationa surgical procedure in which tissue or whole organs are transfered from one species to another species epikeratophakiausing a piece of donated corneal tissue to repair the eye of someone who has had a cataract removed operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body 7n (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient Syn|Hypo|Hyper graft autograft, autoplasty tissue that is taken from one site and grafted to another site on the same person allograft, homografttissue or organ transplanted from a donor of the same species but different genetic makeup; recipient's immune system must be suppressed to prevent rejection of the graft heterograft, xenografttissue from an animal of one species used as a temporary graft (as in cases of severe burns) on an individual of another species animal tissue the tissue in the bodies of animals |
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