TO 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.
 

Food & Agriculture

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

Crosswords: TO TRANSPLANT

"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.

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.

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

Health

As surgical methods to transplant grafts improve, rejection becomes the major cause of graft failure. (references)

It also reduces the risk of hepatitis and sensitization to transplant antigens associated with transfusion. (references)

Immunosuppressants are given to transplant patients to prevent organ rejection or to patients with autoimmune diseases like lupus. (references)

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

Chinese 

移殖 , 移植 , � �植 (to plant). (various references)

Danish

omskole, omplante (to prick out). (various references)

Dutch

verspenen (to prick out), verplanten, pikeren (to prick out), overplanten. (various references)

Finnish

siirtää (assign, carry forward, convey, dislodge, displace, endorse, graft, hand over, make ... over, move, remove, shift, transfer, transmit, transplant, transport), koulia (tame, train), istuttaa uudelleen (transplant). (various references)

French

transplanter (to prick out), repiquer un plant (to prick out), repiquer. (various references)

German

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

Greek 

μεταφυτεύω (prick out, repot, transplant). (various references)

Hungarian

áttelepít (relocate, to relocate, to re-route, to resettle), átültet (replant, to graft, to replant, to translate, translate, transplant). (various references)

Italian

trapianto (graft, transplant, transplantation), trapiantare (graft, plant out, prick off, prick out, transplant), sradicare (eradicate, pull up, root out, root up, stub, uproot). (various references)

Pig Latin

otay ansplanttray

Portuguese

transplantar (graft, transplant), repicar (peak, peal). (various references)

Spanish

trasplantar (plant out, prick, prick out, transplant). (various references)

Swedish

skola (academy, be about to, be going to, college, school, teach, train, transplant), prickla (to prick out), omskola (prick, prick off, re educate, re-educate), omplantera (transplant), inplantera (implant, naturalize). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: transplant.

-3 letters: postnatal.

-4 letters: annattos, arnattos, pastoral, patronal, plastron, postanal, sonantal.

-5 letters: alastor, anattos, annatto, arnatto, attorns, natrons, nonarts, nonpast, parasol, partans, partons, patrols, patrons, plantar, platans, portals, prolans, rattans, rattons, saltant, saltpan, spartan, statant, stratal, tantras, tapalos, tarpans, tarpons, tartans, trapans.

+3 letters: transplantation.

+4 letters: transplantations, transportational.

+5 letters: posttranslational.