implant

See also: împlânt

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French implanter, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin implantō.

Pronunciation

• :
  • (verb): IPA^(key): /ɪmˈplɑːnt/
  • (noun): IPA^(key): /ˈɪmplɑːnt/
• :
  • (verb): enPR: ĭmplăntʹ, IPA^(key): /ɪmˈplænt/
  • (noun): enPR: ĭmʹplănt', IPA^(key): /ˈɪmˌplænt/
• Rhymes: -ɑːnt, -ænt

Verb

implant (third-person singular simple present implants, present participle implanting, simple past and past participle implanted)

1. (transitive) To fix firmly or set securely or deeply.
2. (transitive) To insert (something) surgically into the body.
3. (intransitive) Of an embryo, to become attached to and embedded in the womb.

Synonyms

• (fix firmly or set securely or deeply): embed/imbed, engraft, engrain, graft, insert, instil/instill, plant, root
• (insert (something) surgically into the body): graft

Derived terms

• implantable

Related terms

• implantation

Translations

fix firmly or set securely and deeply

• Bulgarian: внедрявам (bg) (vnedrjavam)
• Finnish: istuttaa (fi), juurruttaa, kiinnittää (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: fincar (pt), implantar (pt)
• Russian: внедря́ть (ru) impf (vnedrjátʹ), внедри́ть (ru) pf (vnedrítʹ); привива́ть (ru) impf (privivátʹ), приви́ть (ru) pf (privítʹ); вселя́ть (ru) impf (vseljátʹ), всели́ть (ru) pf (vselítʹ)

insert (something) surgically into the body

• Bulgarian: имплантирам (implantiram), присаждам (bg) (prisaždam)
• Czech: implantovat
• Finnish: istuttaa (fi)
• French: implant (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: einpflanzen, implantieren (de)
• Portuguese: implantar (pt)
• Romanian: implanta (ro)
• Russian: импланти́ровать (ru) impf or pf (implantírovatʹ); вживля́ть (ru) impf (vživljátʹ), вживи́ть (ru) pf (vživítʹ)

of an embryo, to become embedded in the womb

• Finnish: kiinnittyä
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Noun

implant (plural implants)

1. Anything surgically implanted in the body, such as a tissue graft or prosthesis, particularly breast implants.
2. (travel) A representative of a travel company, working within the office of a large client and exclusively dealing with that client.

Derived terms

• (breast implant): outplant

Translations

anything surgically implanted in the body

• Bulgarian: имплантат m (implantat)
• Catalan: implant (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 植入 (zh) (zhírù), 植入管 (zhírùguǎn), 移植物 (yízhíwù), 深植 (shēnzhí)

• Czech: implantát m
• Danish: implantat n
• Dutch: implantaat (nl) n
• Finnish: istute, implantti (fi)
• French: implant (fr) m
• Galician: implante m
• German: Implantat (de) n
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: implantátum (hu)
• Japanese: インプラント (inpuranto), 移植片 (いしょくへん, ishokuhen)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: implantat n

  Nynorsk: implantat n

• Portuguese: implante (pt) m
• Romanian: implantat n, implant (ro) n, implanturi n pl
• Russian: импланта́т (ru) m (implantát)
• Spanish: implante (es) m
• Swedish: implantat n

Anagrams

• Tamplin

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [imˈplan]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [imˈplant]

Noun

implant m (plural implants)

1. (medicine) implant

Related terms

• implantar

Further reading

• “implant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “implant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “implant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “implant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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French

Noun

implant m (plural implants)

1. (medicine) implant

Further reading

• “implant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.