implantable

[im-plan-tuh-buhl, -plahn-]

im·plant·a·ble

[im-plan-tuh-buhl, -plahn-]
adjective
1.
capable of being implanted.
2.
pertaining to a device, as a micropump or porous polymer membrane, for surgical insertion under the skin for the controlled release of a drug.
noun
3.
Surgery. a material, foreign to the body, that can be implanted without undue risk of rejection.

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Implantable is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Origin:
1955–60; implant + -able
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