transplant
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
transplant
n 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}, {transplant}]
2: an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to
another (the recipient); "he had a kidney transplant"; "the
long-term results of cardiac transplantation are now
excellent"; "a child had a multiple organ transplant two
months ago" [syn: {transplant}, {transplantation}, {organ
transplant}]
3: the act of removing something from one location and
introducing it in another location; "the transplant did not
flower until the second year"; "too frequent transplanting is
not good for families"; "she returned to Alabama because she
could not bear transplantation" [syn: {transplant},
{transplantation}, {transplanting}]
v 1: lift and reset in another soil or situation; "Transplant
the young rice plants" [syn: {transplant}, {transfer}]
2: be transplantable; "These delicate plants do not transplant
easily"
3: place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient [syn:
{transplant}, {graft}]
4: transfer from one place or period to another; "The ancient
Greek story was transplanted into Modern America" [syn:
{transfer}, {transpose}, {transplant}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Transplant \Trans*plant"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Transplanted};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Transplanting}.] [F. transplanter, L.
transplantare; trans across, over + plantare to plant. See
{Plant}.]
1. To remove, and plant in another place; as, to transplant
trees. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
2. To remove, and settle or establish for residence in
another place; as, to transplant inhabitants.
[1913 Webster]
Being transplanted out of his cold, barren diocese
of St. David into a warmer climate. --Clarendon.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
113 Moby Thesaurus words for "transplant":
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
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