transplantation — meaning in English
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English meaning
- transplant verb To dig up a plant and replant it somewhere else.
- transplantation noun The surgical process of moving an organ or tissue from a donor to a recipient.
Senses
transplantation is used for these senses in English:
- transplant An act of uprooting and moving (something), especially and archetypically a plant.
- transplant (medicine) An operation (procedure) in which tissue or an organ is transplanted: an instance of transplantation.
- transplantation A surgical operation in which an organ is moved from a donor to a recipient; an organ transplant.
transplant — full definition
- verb To dig up a plant and replant it somewhere else.
- verb In surgery, to move an organ or tissue from one body, or body part, to another.
- noun A surgical procedure, or the organ/tissue moved, in a transplant operation.
- noun Informal: a person who has moved from one place to live in another.
transplantation — full definition
- noun The surgical process of moving an organ or tissue from a donor to a recipient.
- noun The act of uprooting a plant and replanting it in a new location.