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Transplantation

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n. The resettlement of a group of people

n. A surgical operation in which an organ is moved from a donor to a recipient; an organ transplant

n. The uprooting of a tree and planting it in a new location

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act of transplanting, or the state of being transplanted; also, removal.

n. The removal of tissues from a healthy part, and the insertion of them in another place where there is a lesion.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of transplanting a living plant or shifting it to new soil.

n. The removal of an inhabitant or the inhabitants of one place or region to a different one for residence; also, the persons so removed.

n. In surgery, the removal of living tissue from one part of the body to another, or from one individual to another, to supply a part that has been lost or to lessen a deformity, as in the Taliacotian operation.

n. A pretended method of curing any disease by making it pass from the sick person to another person, or even to an animal or a vegetable.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient)

n. the act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location

Word Usage

"The success of this transplantation is an event of both great scientific and social significance."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

movement

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Alsatian Americanization Appalachian Balkanization Christianization

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

transplant engraftment microenvironment xenotransplantation allograft