Dictionary Definition
transplant
Noun
1 (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a
donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor
and recipient [syn: graft]
2 an operation moving an organ from one organism
(the donor) to another (the recipient); "he had a kidney
transplant" [syn: transplantation,
organ
transplant]
3 the act of uprooting and moving a plant to a
new location; "the transplant was successful"; "too frequent
transplanting is not good for plants" [syn: transplanting, transplantation]
Verb
1 lift and reset in another soil or situation;
"Transplant the young rice plants" [syn: transfer]
2 be transplantable; "These delicate plants do
not transplant easily"
3 place athe organ of a donor into the body of a
recipient [syn: graft]
4 transfer from one place or period to another;
"The ancient Greek story was transplanted into Modern America"
[syn: transfer,
transpose]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation 1
- a RP , /trɑːnzˈplɑːnt/|/trænzˈplɑːnt/, /trA:nz"plA:nt/ or /tr
Extensive Definition
Transplant or Transplants may
refer to:
- Organ transplant, moving an organ from one body to another
- Transplanting a plant from one location to another
- A transplant experiment, a type of experiment where an organism is moved from one location to another
- Transplants, an American band, or their self-titled album.
transplant in Modern Greek
(1453-): Μόσχευμα
transplant in Indonesian:
Pencangkokan
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
amputation, anastomotic
operation, assign,
bed, bloodless operation,
broadcast, capital
operation, carry over, communicate, compensating
operation, consign,
corneal transplant, crescent operation, deliver, deport, dibble, diffuse, displace, disseminate, drill, elective operation,
embedment, emergency
operation, entrance,
excision, expel, exploratory operation,
export, extradite, fenestration
operation, forest,
graft, grafting, hand forward, hand
on, hand over, heart transplant, impaction, impactment, impart, implant, implantation, import, infixion, infusion, injection, inoculation, inseminate, insertion, insinuation, interjection, interpolation, interval
operation, introduction, intromission, kidney
transplant, major operation, make over, metastasize, metathesize, minor
operation, move, operation, organ transplant,
organ transplantation, palliative operation, pass, pass on, pass over, pass the
buck, penetration,
perfuse, perfusion, plant, pot, put in, radical operation,
reforest, relay, relocate, removal, remove, resection, reset, resettle, retimber, scatter seed,
section, seed, seed down, seminate, set, shift, sow, sow broadcast, spread, surgical intervention,
surgical operation, surgical technique, switch, tessellation, the knife,
transfer, transfer
property, transfuse,
translate, translocate, transmit, transplace, transplantation,
transpose, turn over,
uproot