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Implantation

noun

(embryology) the organic process whereby a fertilized egg becomes implanted in the lining of the uterus of placental mammals. Synonym: nidation.

The act of planting or setting in the ground.

A surgical procedure that places something in the human body.

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... which constitutes its essence. This consciousness arose first in religion, the inmost region of Spirit; but to introduce the principle into the various relations of the actual world involves a more extensive problem than its simple implantation—a problem whose solution and application require a severe and lengthened process of culture. In proof of this we may note that slavery did not cease immediately on the reception of Christianity. Still less did liberty predominate in States; or governments and constitutions adopt ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VII. • Various

... love of the sex as a gem in its matrix. IX. The love of the sex with man is not the origin of conjugial love, but its first rudiment; thus it is like an external natural principle, in which an internal spiritual principle is implanted. X. During the implantation of conjugial love, the love of the sex inverts itself and becomes the chaste love of the sex. XI. The male and the female were created to be the essential form of the marriage of good and truth. XII. They are that form ...

— The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love • Emanuel Swedenborg

... Insertion — N. insertion, implantation, introduction; insinuation &c (intervention) 228; planting, &c v.; injection, inoculation, importation, infusion; forcible ingress &c 294; immersion; submersion, submergence, dip, plunge; bath &c (water) 337; interment &c ...

— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... in agreement with that of Basch,[Footnote: Monatesschr. f. Kinderh. V., No. ix., Dec. 1909.] who states that implantation of the, ovaries from a pregnant bitch under the skin of the back of a one-year-old bitch that was not pregnant was followed by proliferation of the mammary glands of the latter. After six weeks the glands were ...

— Hormones and Heredity • J. T. Cunningham

... first to perform the implantation of teeth; and Younger the first to transplant the teeth of man in the jaws of man; the initial operation should be called replantation, as it was merely the replacement of a tooth in a socket from which it had accidentally or intentionally been removed. Hunter drilled ...

— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould