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Transplantation n.

The act of transplanting, or the state of being transplanted; also, removal. "The transplantation of Ulysses to Sparta."

(Surg.) The removal of tissues from a healthy part, and the insertion of them in another place where there is a lesion; as, the transplantation of tissues in autoplasty.

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Etymology of 'Transplantation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Transplantation" Quotes from Famous Books

... a humiliation left behind forever. Has not its narrowness shamed us, its poverty of action cramped and starved the capacities we begin to feel unfolding in us—has not its peace made us seem cowards while we lingered in it, and will not its imperishable purity bear transplantation, and bloom in perennial beauty on the wider fields to which ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

... with the soil; until no small portion of it must necessarily be akin to the mortal frame wherewith, for a little while, I walk the streets. In part, therefore, the attachment which I speak of is the mere sensuous sympathy of dust for dust. Few of my countrymen can know what it is; nor, as frequent transplantation is perhaps better for the stock, need they consider it desirable ...

— The Scarlet Letter • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... work was done by Philipeaux. A beginning had been made with experimental teratology by E. Geoffroy St Hilaire and others, and the work of C. Dareste[467] remains classical. Back in the 18th century, some of John Hunter's experiments had a bearing upon the problems of form; his work on transplantation was followed up in the 19th century by Flourens, P. Bert, Ollier and many others. In founding in 1872 the Archives de Zoologie experimentale et generale H. de Lacaze-Duthiers put forward in his introduction a powerful plea for the use of ...

— Form and Function - A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology • E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

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