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verbtransfer from one place or period to anothertype of:
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nounan operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient)
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verbplace the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient
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noun(surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
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verblift and reset in another soil or situation
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nounthe act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location
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verbbe transplantabletype of:
Definition that contains transplant
- host (medicine) recipient of transplanted tissue or organ from a donor
- harvest remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation
- transplant be transplantable
- transplant (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
- graft (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
- immunosuppression lowering the body's normal immune response to invasion by foreign substances; can be deliberate (as in lowering the immune response to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ) or incidental (as a side effect of radiotherapy or chemotherapy for cancer)
- allograft tissue or organ transplanted from a donor of the same species but different genetic makeup; recipient's immune system must be suppressed to prevent rejection of the graft
- incompatibility (immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue)
- zinfandel small black grape grown chiefly in California; transplanted from Europe
- organ donor someone from whom an organ is taken for transplantation