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"The ancient Greek story was transplanted into Modern America"verbtransfer from one place or period to anothertype of:
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"he had a kidney transplant" "the long-term results of cardiac transplantation are now excellent" "a child had a multiple organ transplant two months ago"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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"the transplant did not flower until the second year" "too frequent transplanting is not good for families" "she returned to Alabama because she could not bear transplantation"nounthe act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location
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"These delicate plants do not transplant easily"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
- sir peter brian medawar British immunologist (born in Brazil) who studied tissue transplants and discovered that the rejection of grafts was an immune response (1915-1987)