implantverb(OBJECT)

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light speed
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Medical treatment: surgery
transplant
noun
uk /ˈtræn.splɑːnt/ us /ˈtræn.splænt/
C2[ C or U ]
a medical operation in which a new organ is put into someone's body: （尤指器官的）移植
a liver/kidney transplant肝脏／肾脏移植
transplant surgery移植手术
have a transplantHe had a heart transplant (= doctors gave him a different, healthier heart instead of his old one).他接受过心脏移植。
[ C ]
something, especially a new organ, that has been transplanted: 移植物;（尤指）移植器官
His body accepted/rejected the transplant.他的身体对移植器官没有出现／出现了排斥反应。
He was given a new liver in a transplant operation.
She received her transplant a month ago.

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Medical treatment: surgery
ablate
adenoidectomy
adrenalectomy
allograft
amputation
anaesthesia
blood transfusion
endarterectomy
endonasal
enterostomy
enucleate
enucleated
general anaesthetic
mastectomy
prostatectomy
pump something out
reduction mammaplasty
regraft
reimplant
suture

transplant | American Dictionary

transplant
verb
us/trænsˈplænt/

transplantverb (CHANGE ENVIRONMENT)

[ I/T ]
to move someone or something, or to be moved from one place to another:
[ T ]I transplanted those bushes to the back of the house.

transplantverb (MOVE ORGAN)

[ T ]
to move tissue or an organ from one person’s body to another’s
transplant
noun[ C ]
us/ˈtrænsˌplænt/

transplantnoun[C] (MEDICAL OPERATION)

a medical operation in which a new organ or tissue is put into someone's body:
He survived a kidney transplant.

transplantnoun[C] (PERSON/THING)

someone or something that has moved or been moved from one place to another:
I’m a transplant from California.

Examples of transplant

transplant
Transplanted rice undergoes two more growth processes than does the directly seeded rice, nursery growth and transplanting shock.
A challenge in responding to such requests is in determining the comparative benefits and risks of different stem cell transplant methods.
Units have been set up, personnel trained, and transplants are being performed.
In the remaining cases, the gentlemen described having a difficult time with the transplant.
It is anticipated that heart and lung transplants would be even more restricted to possibly one or at most two centers.
Approximately half had a functioning transplant, with the remainder receiving dialysis therapy.
But they are all "potential donors" for someone on that transplant list.
Despite recent large increases in the number of organs transplanted from living donors, especially from genetically unrelated volunteers, supply continues to lag far behind demand.
As soon as they were identified, seedlings were removed or transplanted to individual pots, in order to avoid deleterious effects between seedlings.
The limitations of our investigation notwithstanding, the multivariate analyses suggested that respondents' temporal distress profiles were predicted by pre- and post-transplant health and psychosocial characteristics.
This is not to deny the legitimacy of the policy's underlying concern to increase the number of lives saved by liver transplants.
Inequalities, such as a fivefold difference in waiting times for liver transplants, should serve as triggers to inquire into ways to reduce the inequalities.
Should the patient's prior transplants, noncompliance, and poor social network exclude her even from the waiting list?
The average age of the patients on the waiting list and the patients receiving transplants was 51 years and 53 years, respectively.
The genetic structure of host plant adaptation in a spatial patchwork : demographic variability among reciprocally transplanted pea aphid clones.
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Collocations withtransplant

transplant

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bone marrow transplant
Some doctors referred to uncertainties in the long-term usage of the new drug and suggested bone marrowtransplant.
corneal transplant
This review synthesises the principal concepts emerging from studies of the molecular mechanisms in cornealtransplant immunology.
heart-lung transplant
Of 34 operative survivors, 10 were reoperated (4 baffle dysfunction, 3 baffle leaks, 1 valvular prosthesis, 3 pacemakers and 1 heart-lung transplant).
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