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Transplantation   /trˌænzplæntˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Transplantation

noun
1.
An operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient).  Synonyms: organ transplant, transplant.  "The long-term results of cardiac transplantation are now excellent" , "A child had a multiple organ transplant two months ago"
2.
The act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location.  Synonyms: transplant, transplanting.  "Too frequent transplanting is not good for families" , "She returned to Alabama because she could not bear transplantation"



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"Transplantation" Quotes from Famous Books



... we took care to get all of the root possible and to take a ball of dirt with the root. In spite of these precautions, some of the trees died, not having sufficient vitality and root development to withstand transplantation. This was a result not only of the crowded condition under which the stocks had grown but also of the poor soil which had nourished them. The soil was heavy blue clay underlaid with limestone within two feet ...
— Growing Nuts in the North • Carl Weschcke

... than a century and a half ago, should be so little known to the present court and administration of Great Britain. Even the revolutionary war was not sufficient to teach John Bull, that his descendants had improved by transplantation, in all those qualities for which stuffy John most values himself. The present race of Englishmen are puffed up, and blinded by what they have been, while their descendants in America are proud of what they are, and what ...
— A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. • Benjamin Waterhouse

... to his lessons. He was a bright, clever little chap, and when he tried to understand his governess' method of teaching, he did his work fairly well. But Diana and Orion were much too young for the somewhat severe transplantation which had taken place in their little lives. Had Iris been allowed to be with them matters might not have grown quite so bad, but she was much occupied with her lessons, and the younger children spent the greater part of their ...
— A Little Mother to the Others • L. T. Meade



Words linked to "Transplantation" :   keratoplasty, surgical operation, nuclear transplantation, surgical procedure, corneal transplant, movement, operation, surgical process, xenotransplant, corneal graft, surgery



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