transplant
pronunciation
How to pronounce transplant in British English:
UK [trænsˈplɑːnt , ˈtrænsplɑːnt]
How to pronounce transplant in American English:
US [trænsˈplænt , ˈtrænsplænt]
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- Noun:
- (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
- an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient)
- the act of uprooting and moving a plant to a new location
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- Verb:
- lift and reset in another soil or situation
- be transplantable
- place athe organ of a donor into the body of a recipient
- transfer from one place or period to another
Word Origin
- transplant (v.)
- mid-15c., from Late Latin transplantare "plant again in a different place," from Latin trans- "across" (see trans-) + plantare "to plant" (see plant (v.)). Extended to people (1550s) and then to organs or tissue (1786). Related: Transplanted; transplanting.
- transplant (n.)
- 1756, in reference to plants, from transplant (v.); in reference 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.
Example
- 1. Long transplant chains save more lives than short chains .
- 2. So why not transplant african elephants to north america ?
- 3. It 's more like an organ transplant .
- 4. He had a liver transplant in 2009 .
- 5. A mismatched organ transplant typically gets rejected .