transplantation
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See also: Transplantation
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French transplantation, from transplanter (“to transplant”) + -ation (suffix indicating an action or process).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]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 medicosurgical specialty (field) concerned with such operations.
- A particular instance of such an operation (a single procedure): a 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]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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References
[edit]- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “transplantation”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From transplanter + -ation.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]transplantation f (plural transplantations)
- transplantation (all senses)
Further reading
[edit]- “transplantation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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