Transplant

Definition: Transplant

Transplant

Noun

1. (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient.

2. An operation moving an organ from one person (the donor) to another (the recipient).

3. The act of uprooting and moving a plant to a new location; "the transplant was successful"; "too frequent transplanting is not good for plants".

Verb

1. Lift and reset in another soil or situation; "Transplant the young rice plants".

2. In surgery.

3. Transfer from one place or period to another; "The ancient Greek story was transplanted into Modern America".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "transplant" was first used: sometime around 1440. (references)

Note: Transplant \Trans*plant"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Transplanted; present participle verb or noun Transplanting.]. (Websters 1913)

Food & Agriculture

Medicine

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Transplant

Transference

Verb: transfer, transmit, transport, transplace, transplant, translocate; convey, carry, bear, fetch and carry; carry over, ferry over; hand pass, forward; shift; conduct, convoy, bring, fetch, reach; tote; port, import, export.

Crosswords: Transplant

French (transplant), Serbo-Croatian (transplant).

Once I transplant these brainwave transmitters into the clones brains I will be able to see and hear everything they taste and smell. (Clone High; writing credit: Damian Chapa)

When I've finished with the Green Baize Vampire, he's gonna need a blood transfusion, a brain transplant and a set of National Health railings. (Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire; writing credit: Trevor Preston)

Gave him a transplant before a brand new start ("The Message"; performing artist: Grandmaster Flash)

The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant (1971)

Night of the Bloody Transplant (1970)

The Amazing Transplant (1970)

Transplant (1979)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Corneal Transplant Surgery (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Journey of the Heart: Spiritual Insights on the Road to a Transplant (reference)

• Manual of Liver Transplant Medical Care (reference)

• Plug & Transplant Production: A Grower's Guide (reference)

• The Puzzle People: Memoirs of a Transplant Surgeon (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• American Society Of Transplant Physicians Membership (reference)

• International Transplant Directory (reference)

• Transplant Immunology (reference)

• Transplant Infectious Disease (reference)

• Transplant International (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Amazing Transplant (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Mind Transplant [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A 10 year-old white girl is pictured here with her father in a swimming pool. She was diagnosed at age three with a form of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) that did not respond to therapy. She is presently in long-term remission after an experimental bone marrow transplant was performed. She now suffers from chronic GVH (Graft Versus Host Disease) which is rare. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

"Buy boat" ROBERT LEE docked at the University of Maryland Horn Point Environmental Laboratory on the Choptank River. Used by the Oyster Recovery Partnership to transplant oyster spat to permanent oyster beds in the Chesapeake Bay. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Volunteers assist the Oyster Recovery Partnership in their effort to transplant oyster spat before the population is decimated by the Stylochus flatworm. Hatchery bags are stacked aboard the ROBERT LEE. Credit: America's Coastlines.

The transplant team on the EPA boat after the transplant process. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

John Torgan of Save the Bay RI volunteered services to the transplant team and to reporters and the NOAA film crew during the 1997 transplants. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Oysters ready for transplant. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A propagule of Zostera marina. The Alliance for Chesapeake Bay uses volunteers to transplant eelgrass to sites that demonstrate they are suitable transplant sites. SAV transplants are seen as a way to help the Bay recover. During this transplant session approximately 40 volunteers planted for over two days. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Diver relocates a fish trap used for transplant experiments. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Mountain Goat Transplant. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library.

Nunivak Island Musk Ox Transplant. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Health

The surgery is called a liver transplant. (references)

By blood transfusion or organ transplant. (references)

Through blood transfusion or by organ transplant. (references)

Economic History

Bahrain

The expansion also houses the oncology unit; the accident and emergency department with facilities to manage life threatening cases with the most up-to-date facilities, including resuscitation wards and monitoring rooms; a cardiac intensive care unit; and a bone marrow transplant unit that has conducted the first bone marrow transplant in Bahrain. (references)

Human Rights

China

Officials have confirmed that executed prisoners are among the sources of organs for transplant but maintain that consent is required from prisoners or their relatives in advance of the procedure. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "transplant": allogenic transplant ♦ corneal transplant ♦ heart transplant ♦ kidney transplant ♦ nursery transplant ♦ organ transplant ♦ Pancreas Transplant ♦ to transplant ♦ transplant bank ♦ transplant board ♦ transplant box ♦ transplant patient. Additional references.

Ending with "transplant": double-transplant, heart-transplant, non-transplant, organ-transplant, post-transplant, xeno-transplant.

Albanian

transplantoj (graft, implant, prick out), shpërngul (dislodge, displace, rehouse, transfer), mbëltoj. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مزدرع, ‏نقل غرسة ويشتلها من جديد, ‏طعم (diet, engraft, feed, fill, implant, inlay, inoculate, keep, nourish, relish, savor, savour, taste, troll), ‏إزدرع تعويضيا, ‏شىء مزدرع, ‏شتل (implant, plant, transplantation). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разсаждам (plant out, prick off), преселвам, пресаждам, присаждам тъкан. (various references)

Chinese 

移植 (transplantation, Transplanted, transplanting). (various references)

Czech

transplantovat (graft), transplantace (graft, transplantation), transplantát (graft), přestìhovat (move, relocate, transmigrate), přesadit (replant, reset, transpose), přenést (carry forward, communicate, depute, transfer, translate). (various references)

Danish

transplantat, prikleplante (picking out plant, transplanted plant), omskolet plante, graft. (various references)

Dutch

verspeende plant (picking out plant, transplanted plant). (various references)

Farsi 

فراکاشتن , مهاجرت کردن (Colonize, Emigrate, Migrate), نشاکردن , نشاء زدن , کوچ دادن (Transmigrate), عضوپیوندشده , درجای دیگری نشاندن . (various references)

Finnish

koulittu taimi (picking out plant, transplanted plant). (various references)

French

transplant, greffon. (various references)

German

verpflanzen (graft, repot, to transplant), Transplantat (graft). (various references)

Greek 

μεταμόσχευση (transplantation). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"שתיל (strike roots), שתל (graft, sapling, seedling). (various references)

Hungarian

átültetett növény, átültetendő szerv. (various references)

Indonesian

menganjak (reset), mencangkokkan (graft), cangkok (cutting, false, graft, shoot). (various references)

Italian

trapianto (graft, transplantation), trapiantare (graft, plant out, prick off, prick out). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

骨髄移植 (marrow transplant), �"器移植 (organ transplant), �'膜移植 (corneal transplant), 皮膚移植 (skin graft, skin transplant), 植毛�" (a hair transplant), 心�"移植 (heart transplant). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぞうきいしょく (organ transplant), しょくもうじゅつ (a hair transplant), し�"ぞういしょく (heart transplant), ひふいしょく (skin graft, skin transplant), かくまくいしょく (corneal transplant), �"つずいいしょく (marrow transplant). (various references)

Korean 

이주 (Emigrating, immigration, tragus). (various references)

Manx

aachuirrey (reinvite, resow, second sowing, transplantation). (various references)

Pig Latin

ansplanttray

Portuguese

transplante (graft), transplantar (graft), propágulo repicado, planta (design, designing, diagram, map, plan, plane, plant, sole, survey, veronica), enxertar (bud, engraft, graft, implant, ingraft, inoculate). (various references)

Romanian

transplanta (replant), rãsãdi (prick out), grefa un ţesut. (various references)

Russian 

пересаживать (replant, transplanting, trans-ship), пересадить, делать пересадку (change, change carriages). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

transplant, presaditi (graft, replant), presađivanje (grafting, transplantation), premestiti (displace, move, shift, transpose). (various references)

Spanish

trasplante (transplantation, transplanting), trasplantar (plant out, prick, prick out). (various references)

Swedish

transplantera (graft). (various references)

Turkish

nakletmek (bear, bring forward, carry, carry forward, carry over, communicate, convey, freight, graft, implant, recount, remove, route, ship, transfer, transport, wear), nakledilmek, başka yere dikmek. (various references)

Ukrainian

саджанець (rooter, yearling), трансплантація, пересаджувати (replant, tranship, transship). (various references)

Welsh

trawsblannu. (various references)

planta, plantabant, plantabis, plantabitis, plantabitur, plantabo, plantabunt, plantabuntque, plantandi, plantantes, plantas, plantasti, plantat, plantata, plantatam, plantate, plantati, plantatos, plantatum, plantatur, plantaverat, plantaveritis, plantaverunt, plantavi, plantavit, plantem, plantes, trans-, transplantare, transplantata, transplantati, transplantatum, transplantatur. (various references)

transplantare. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "transplant": transplantabilities, transplantability, transplantable, transplantation, transplantations, transplanted, transplanter, transplanters, transplanting, transplants. (additional references)

Words ending with "transplant": homotransplant. (additional references)

Words containing "transplant": homotransplantation, homotransplantations, homotransplants. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Transplant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: translantic, translent, Transpalene, transplastix. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: partans, plantar, platans, rattans, saltant, saltpan, spartan, stratal, tantras, tarpans, tartans, trapans.

-4 letters: alants, altars, annals, antral, aslant, astral, attars, natant, partan, planar, plants, platan, ratals, ratans, rattan, satrap, statal, strata, talars, tantra, tarnal, tarpan, tarsal, tartan, tatars, trapan.

-5 letters: alans, alant, altar, anlas, annal, annas, antas, antra, apart, artal, ataps, atlas, attar.

+1 letter: transplants.

+2 letters: transplanted, transplanter.

+3 letters: replantations, transparently, transplanters, transplanting.

+4 letters: homotransplant, presentational, transplacental, transplantable.

+5 letters: homotransplants, reimplantations, transcriptional, transpirational, transplantation, transpositional.

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