transplant
21Transplant — The grafting of a tissue from one place to another, just as in botany a bud from one plant might be grafted onto the stem of another. The transplanting of tissue can be from one part of the patient to another (autologous transplantation), as in… …
22transplant — 1 verb (T) 1 to move a plant from one place and plant it in another 2 to move an organ, piece of skin etc from one person s body to another 3 formal to move something or someone from one place to another transplantation noun (U) 2 noun (C, U) 1… …
23transplant — [ˈtrænsˌplɑːnt] noun [C/U] I a medical operation in which a new organ is put into someone s body II verb [T] transplant [ˌtrænsˈplɑːnt] 1) to take a plant out of the ground and put it in a different place 2) to take an organ from one person s… …
24transplant — verb (t) /trænsˈplænt / (say trans plant), / ˈplant/ (say plahnt) 1. to remove (a plant) from one place and plant it in another. 2. Surgery to transfer, as an organ or a portion of tissue, from one part of the body to another or from one person… …
25Transplant rejection — Classification and external resources Micrograph showing lung transplant rejection. Lung biopsy. H E stain. ICD …
26Transplant, heart — A surgical procedure in which a diseased heart is replaced with a healthy heart from a deceased person. The world’s first heart transplant was done on December 3, 1967 by South African surgeon Christiaan Bernard (1922 2001). The recipient… …
27Transplant experiment — A transplant experiment (also known as a common garden experiment, although this term is more plant specific) is an experiment where one or more organisms are transplanted from one environment to another. A reciprocal transplant involves… …
28Transplant, hand and forearm — Transplantation of the hand and the forearm from one person (a deceased donor) to another (the recipient). In the first hand transplant, performed in Ecuador in 1964, the donor hand was rejected after two weeks. The first successful hand and… …
29transplant tourism — /ˈtrænsplænt tʊərɪzəm/ (say transplant toouhrizuhm) noun travelling to another country, ostensibly as a tourist, to purchase a transplant operation on offer there and not available in one s own country, or only available at much greater expense …
30Transplant, lung — The first lung transplant was done by the American surgeon James Hardy (1918 ) in 1964 …
