transplantation
pronunciation
How to pronounce transplantation in British English:
UK [ˌtrænzplɑ:n'teɪʃn]
How to pronounce transplantation in American English:
US [ˌtrænsplænˈteʃən]
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- Noun:
- the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind)
- 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
Word Origin
- transplantation (n.)
- c. 1600, from French transplantation, noun of action from transplanter (v.), from Late Latin transplantare (see transplant (v.)).
Example
- 1. Stem cell transplantation did help some of these
- 2. Transplantation of this 3d tissue in the future could help patients with visual impairments see clearly .
- 3. Woe to the patient waiting for someone to offer up a spare organ for transplantation .
- 4. This is not the first time a lab-engineered trachea has been used for transplantation .
- 5. For more advanced medical technologies , like chemotherapy or organ transplantation , antibiotics are needed to prevent and treat infections while patients heal .