transplantation
See also: Transplantation
English
Noun
transplantation (countable and uncountable, plural transplantations)
- The resettlement of a group of people.
- A surgical operation in which an organ is moved from a donor to a recipient; an organ transplant.
- The uprooting of a tree and planting it in a new location.
- 1761, John Mordant, The Complete Steward:
- There is no tree admits of transplantation so well as the Elm, for a tree of twenty years growth will admit of a remove.
Derived terms
- 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
The resettlement of a group of people
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A surgical operation
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The uprooting of a tree and planting it in a new location
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French
Etymology
From transplanter + -ation
Pronunciation
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Noun
transplantation f (plural transplantations)
- transplantation (all senses)