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trans⋅plant

  [v. trans-plant, -plahnt; n. trans-plant, -plahnt]
Use transplant in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to remove (a plant) from one place and plant it in another.
2. Surgery. to transfer (an organ, tissue, etc.) from one part of the body to another or from one person or animal to another.
3. to move from one place to another.
4. to bring (a family, colony, etc.) from one country, region, etc., to another for settlement; relocate.
–verb (used without object)
5. to undergo or accept transplanting: to transplant easily.
–noun
6. the act or process of transplanting.
7. a plant, organ, person, etc., that has been transplanted.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME < LL trānsplantāre, equiv. to L trāns- trans- + plantāre to plant

Related forms:
trans⋅plant⋅a⋅ble, adjective
trans⋅plan⋅ta⋅tion, noun
trans⋅plant⋅er, noun
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trans·plant   (trāns-plānt')   
v.   trans·plant·ed, trans·plant·ing, trans·plants

v.   tr.

  1. To uproot and replant (a growing plant).

  2. To transfer from one place or residence to another; resettle or relocate.

  3. Medicine To transfer (tissue or an organ) from one body or body part to another.

v.   intr.
To be capable of undergoing transplantation.
n.   (trāns'plānt')

  1. The act or process of transplanting.

  2. Something transplanted.

  3. Medicine An operation in which tissue or an organ is transplanted: undergo a heart transplant; surgical transplant of a cornea.


[Middle English transplaunten, from Old French transplanter, from Late Latin trānsplantāre : Latin trāns, trans- + Latin plantāre, to plant; see plat- in Indo-European roots.]
trans·plant'a·ble adj., trans'plan·ta'tion n., trans·plant'er n.
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Word Origin & History

transplant  (v.)
c.1440, from L.L. transplantare "plant again in a different place," from L. trans- "across" + plantare "to plant" (see plant). Extended to people (1555) and then to organs or tissue (1786).The noun, in ref. to plants, is recorded from 1756; in ref. to surgical transplanting of human organs or tissue it is first recorded 1951, but not in widespread use until Christiaan Barnard performed the world's first successful heart transplant in 1967 at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa. Meaning "person not native to his place of residence" is recorded from 1961.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 1trans·plant
Pronunciation: tran(t)s-'plant
Function: transitive verb
: to transfer from one place to another;especially : to transfer (an organ or tissue) from one part or individual to another <transplanted one twin's kidney to the other>

Main Entry: 2trans·plant
Pronunciation: 'tran(t)s-"plant
Function: noun
1 : something (as an organ or part) that is transplanted
2 : the act or process of transplanting : TRANSPLANTATION transplant>
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transplant trans·plant (trāns-plānt')
v. trans·plant·ed, trans·plant·ing, trans·plants
To transfer a tissue or an organ from one body or body part to another. n. (trāns'plānt')

  1. The act or process of transplanting.

  2. The tissue or organ so used.

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