From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishtransplanttrans‧plant1 /ˈtrænsplɑːnt $ -plænt/ ●○○ noun 1 MH[countable, uncountable] the operation of transplanting an organ, piece of skin etc → implant heart transplant surgery a bone marrow transplant2 MH[countable] the organ, piece of skin etc that is moved in a transplant operation → implant
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transplant• Bombeck began dialysis at her home in Paradise Valley, Arizona, while waiting for a transplant.• The stakes with a child under the age of eight are high for a corneal transplant, Song explains.• For 17 years, 52-year-old Anthony waited in vain for a kidney transplant.• She developed progressive liver failure and required a liver transplant.• a liver transplant• Kelly's only hope of survival was a heart and lung transplant.• The treatment was first tested in patients who received transplants of bone marrow.• a New York transplant to Californiatransplanttrans‧plant2 /trænsˈplɑːnt $ -ˈplænt/ verb [transitive] 1 MHto move an organ, piece of skin etc from one person’s body and put it into another as a form of medical treatment2 HBPDLGto move a plant from one place and plant it in another place3 formalLEAVE YOUR HOME/COUNTRY to move something or someone from one place to another —transplantation /ˌtrænsplɑːnˈteɪʃən $ -plæn-/ noun [uncountable]→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpus
transplant• The creeping rhizome produces young plants which can be divided and transplanted.• In addition to plant sales, Barron offered transplanting and landscape gardening.• The second group represented wild birds transplanted from not far away.• His kidney was transplanted in his daughter.• The club looks like a little bit of Las Vegas transplanted in Texas.• Critically ill patients such as Lucky normally receive transplanted livers from a parent.• You need to transplant that cactus.• His ideal was to transplant the classical Athenian model of direct democracy to the new world.• And so James Sherald and his assistants scour the mountains to find any living trees to transplant to his garden.Origin transplant1 (1400-1500) Late Latin transplantare, from Latin plantare “to plant” 