transplant

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It's not a head transplant, it's a body transplant.

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Quick take

(surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of transplant gathered in one view.

noun

(surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient

noun

an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient); "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"

noun

the act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location; "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"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for transplant.

noun

(surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient

noun

verb

lift and reset in another soil or situation; "Transplant the young rice plants"

verb

be transplantable; "These delicate plants do not transplant easily"

verb

place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient

verb

transfer from one place or period to another; "The ancient Greek story was transplanted into Modern America"

Example sentences

It's not a head transplant, it's a body transplant.

Arguably, this isn't a "head/spine transplant", it's a "body transplant".

Did the mouse have mouse cancer or transplanted human cancer?

Or is it the doctors who see the fecal transplant as a last-ditch effort only after surgery?

My brother had a bone marrow/stem cell transplant a couple of years ago and I was a matching sibling able to donate.

There are alternative chemotherapies though and they can repeat the transplant.

The factual error that I saw, just as a husband of a transplant worker, also detract from the validity of the article.

As a recent nyc -> sf transplant, i think the best short term solution to making living in the bay area more affordable is to run one track of bart back and forth from 12am - 4am.

According to his post to the list, Mr. Yegge is responsible for the attitude transplant that the Python community has experienced.

Doctors use special, hollow needles to extract little bits of bone marrow from your hip, and because the needles are small it does require a lot of sticks to collect enough marrow for a transplant.

In fact, as is mentioned towards the end of the article, by getting more people registered through this relatively high profile campaign he is increasing the chances of finding a match for others in need of a bone marrow transplant.

In fact, we can deduce from the fact that the mice apparently can form antibodies that they are immunocompetent, which implies that they probably do have mouse cancer, because it's hard to transplant human cancer into a mouse with a functioning immune system.

The organ transplant industry dies.- more trees and less concrete lead to cooler cities?- you can probably get away with more single-lane streets, with no parking, increasing usable land areas in cities by 25%, significantly dropping housing prices.- in your driverless car, you can talk on your cell, use your laptop, read a book, not be stressed from driving.