verb, noun
verb [VN]
1 ~ sth (from sb/sth) (into sb/sth) to take an organ, skin, etc. from one person, animal, part of the body, etc. and put it into or onto another:
Surgeons have successfully transplanted a liver into a four-year-old boy. * Patients often reject transplanted organs.
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2 to move a growing plant and plant it somewhere else
3 (formal) ~ sb/sth (from...) (to...) to move sb/sth to a different place or environment:
Japanese production methods have been transplanted into some British factories.
transplantation noun [U]:
liver transplantation * the transplantation of entire communities overseas
Part of speech: noun
1 [C,U] a medical operation in which a damaged organ, etc. is replaced with one from another person:
to have a heart transplant * a transplant operation / patient * a shortage of suitable kidneys for transplant
2 [C] an organ, etc. that is used in a transplant operation:
There is always a chance that the body will reject the transplant.
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