English Explanatory Dictionary

transplantation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A surgical operation in which an organ is moved from a donor to a recipient; an organ transplant.
  2. The medicosurgical specialty (field) concerned with such operations.
  3. A particular instance of such an operation (a single procedure): a transplant.
  4. The uprooting of a tree and planting it in a new location.
  5. The resettlement of a group of people.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

transplantation transplantations

Etymology

From Middle French transplantation, from transplanter (“to transplant”) + -ation (suffix indicating an action or process).

Derived words

allotransplantation autotransplantation cotransplantation fecal microbiota transplantation haplotransplantation heterotransplantation homeotransplantation homotransplantation isotransplantation microtransplantation neurotransplantation nontransplantation orthotransplantation peritransplantation posttransplantation pretransplantation retransplantation syngeneic transplantation syngenesiotransplantation vasotransplantation xenotransplantation

Translations

Armenian: փոխպատվաստում Belarusian: транспланта́цыя Bulgarian: транспланта́ция Chinese Mandarin: 移植 Czech: transplantace Finnish: elimensiirto French: transplantation German: Transplantation Haitian Creole: transplantasyon Hindi: प्रत्यारोपण Hungarian: átültetés Hungarian: szervátültetés Indonesian: pencangkokan Indonesian: transplantasi Italian: trapianto Italian: trapiantazione Japanese: 移植 Kazakh: транспланттау Kazakh: ауыстырып салу Macedonian: пресадување Malay: pemindahan Malay: pencedungan Māori: huarangatanga Polish: transplantacja Polish: przeszczep Portuguese: transplantação Russian: транспланта́ция Russian: переса́дка Spanish: trasplante Spanish: trasplantación Spanish: transplantación (DEA) Swahili: upandikizaji Swedish: transplantation
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