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transplanted Definition


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transplant
verb transplanted, transplanting
    1. To take (living skin, tissue, an organ, etc) from someone and use it as an implant, either at another site in the donor's own body or in the body of another person.
    2. To move (someone or something, especially a growing plant) from one place to another.
      Thesaurus: relocate, resettle, transfer, uproot, displace, shift, repot.
noun
    1. surgery.
      An operation which involves an organ, skin, tissue, etc being transferred from one person or one part of the body to another.
    2. Something, especially an organ, skin, body tissue, plant, etc which has been transplanted or which is ready to be transplanted.
Derivative: transplantable
adj
    Derivative: transplantation
    noun
      Derivative: transplanter
      noun
        Derivative: transplanting
        noun
          Etymology: 15c: from Latin transplantare.



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