implant

See also: împlânt

English

Etymology

From Middle French implanter, from Latin implantō. By surface analysis, im- +‎ plant.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation):
  • (verb): IPA^(key): /ɪmˈplɑːnt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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  • (noun): IPA^(key): /ˈɪmplɑːnt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American):
  • (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.
   • 1778, T. S., “Proposals for raising Female Regiments”, in The Lady's Magazine Or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, volume 9, page 584:

     That strength of body is often equal to the courage of mind implanted in the fair sex, will not be denied by those who have seen the water-women of Plymouth; the female drudges of Ireland, Wales, and Scotland; the fish-women of Billinsgate; the weeders, podders, and hoppers, who swarm the fields; and the lowest beings of the feminine gender wo swagger in the streets of London.

2. (transitive) To insert (something) surgically into the body.
   • 2007, Susan M. Ewing, Poodles for Dummies, Wiley publishing, Inc., page 206:

     If you prefer a “natural look” for your male Poodle, ask your vet about a vasectomy or implanting artificial testicles (called neuticles).

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)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἐμφύω (emphúō)

• Italian: infiggere (it)
• Maori: kuhi
• Portuguese: fincar (pt), implantar (pt)
• Romanian: înfige (ro)
• 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)
• Sicilian: nchiantari
• Spanish: hincar (es), implantar (es)

insert (something) surgically into the body

• Afrikaans: inplant
• Bulgarian: имплантирам (implantiram), присаждам (bg) (prisaždam)
• Czech: implantovat
• Finnish: istuttaa (fi)
• French: implant (fr) m
• German: einpflanzen (de), implantieren (de)
• Greek: εμφυτεύω (el) (emfytévo)
• Polish: wszczepić (pl) pf, wszczepiać impf
• Portuguese: implantar (pt)
• Romanian: implanta (ro)
• Russian: импланти́ровать (ru) impf or pf (implantírovatʹ); вживля́ть (ru) impf (vživljátʹ), вживи́ть (ru) pf (vživítʹ)
• Sicilian: nchiantari

of an embryo, to become embedded in the womb

• Finnish: kiinnittyä (fi)

Noun

implant (plural implants)

1. (medicine) Anything surgically implanted in the body, such as a tissue graft or prosthesis, particularly breast implants.
   • 2007, Julie Albrecht Royce, Traveling Michigan's Sunset Coast, Dog Ear Publishing, published 2007, →ISBN, page 420:

     They existed at a time in history when shock therapy, brain tissue manipulation, implants, drug experimentation and lobotomies were treatments de jour.

   • 2015 October 22, “Evaluation in a Dog Model of Three Antimicrobial Glassy Coatings: Prevention of Bone Loss around Implants and Microbial Assessments”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Microbial samples and peri-implant crestal bone levels of all implant sites were obtained before, during and after the breakdown period.

2. (travel) A representative of a travel company, working within the office of a large client and exclusively dealing with that client.

Derived terms

• boob implant
• brain implant
• breast implant
• (breast implant): outplant
• cochlear implant

 

Translations

anything surgically implanted in the body

• Afrikaans: implantaat
• 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 (gl) m
• German: Implantat (de) n
• Greek: εμφύτευμα (el) n (emfýtevma)
• 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

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

Anagrams

• Tamplin

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.

French

Noun

implant m (plural implants)

1. (medicine) implant

Descendants

• Turkish: implant

Further reading

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

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English implant, from Middle French implanter, from Latin implantō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈim.plant/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -implant
• Syllabification: im‧plant

Noun

implant m inan

1. (medicine) implant (anything surgically implanted in the body)

   Synonym: wszczep

Declension

Declension of implant

	singular	plural
nominative	implant	implanty
genitive	implantu	implantów
dative	implantowi	implantom
accusative	implant	implanty
instrumental	implantem	implantami
locative	implancie	implantach
vocative	implancie	implanty

Derived terms

verb

• implantować

 

Related terms

nouns

• implantacja
• implantologia

 

Further reading

• implant in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• implant in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French implant.

Noun

implant n (plural implanturi)

1. implant

Declension

Declension of implant

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) implant	implantul	(niște) implanturi	implanturile
genitive/dative	(unui) implant	implantului	(unor) implanturi	implanturilor
vocative	implantule		implanturilor