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TRANSPLANT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location

Example:

she returned to Alabama because she could not bear transplantation

Synonyms:

transplant; transplantation; transplanting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("transplant" is a kind of...):

movement (the act of changing the location of something)

Derivation:

transplant (lift and reset in another soil or situation)

transplant (be transplantable)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient)

Example:

a child had a multiple organ transplant two months ago

Synonyms:

organ transplant; transplant; transplantation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("transplant" is a kind of...):

operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transplant"):

corneal graft; corneal transplant; keratoplasty (a surgical procedure in which part or all of a damaged or diseased cornea is replaced by healthy corneal tissue from a donor)

xenotransplant; xenotransplantation (a surgical procedure in which tissue or whole organs are transfered from one species to another species)

Derivation:

transplant (place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient

Synonyms:

graft; transplant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("transplant" is a kind of...):

animal tissue (the tissue in the bodies of animals)

Domain category:

surgery (the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transplant"):

autograft; autoplasty (tissue that is taken from one site and grafted to another site on the same person)

allograft; homograft (tissue or organ transplanted from a donor of the same species but different genetic makeup; recipient's immune system must be suppressed to prevent rejection of the graft)

heterograft; xenograft (tissue from an animal of one species used as a temporary graft (as in cases of severe burns) on an individual of another species)

Derivation:

transplant (place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Transfer from one place or period to another

Example:

The ancient Greek story was transplanted into Modern America

Synonyms:

transfer; transplant; transpose

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "transplant" is one way to...):

shift (move from one setting or context to another)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient

Synonyms:

graft; transplant

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "transplant" is one way to...):

enter; infix; insert; introduce (put or introduce into something)

"Transplant" entails doing...:

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

transplant (an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient))

transplant ((surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient)

transplantation (an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Lift and reset in another soil or situation

Example:

Transplant the young rice plants

Synonyms:

transfer; transplant

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "transplant" is one way to...):

displace (cause to move, usually with force or pressure)

Verb group:

transplant (be transplantable)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

transplant; transplantation (the act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location)

transplanter (a gardener who moves plants to new locations)

transplanting (the act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Be transplantable

Example:

These delicate plants do not transplant easily

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "transplant" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Verb group:

transfer; transplant (lift and reset in another soil or situation)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

transplant (the act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location)

Credits

 Context examples: 

It is often used to describe tissue or an organ that is transplanted into its normal place in the body.

(Orthotopic, NCI Dictionary)

Neutrophil engraftment can occur as early as 10 days after transplant.

(Neutrophil Engraftment, NCI Thesaurus)

It includes the following variants: polymorphic, monomorphic, and classical Hodgkin lymphoma type post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders.

(Neoplastic Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

A clonal T-cell lymphoproliferative disorder arising as a result of post-transplant immunosuppression therapy.

(Monomorphic T/NK-Cell Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

Severe cases may need a lung transplant.

(Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Around 30 million people across Europe suffer from chronic liver diseases, for which there is currently no cure, with liver transplants being the only treatment for liver failure.

(Regeneration mechanism discovered in mice could provide target for drugs to combat chronic liver disease, University of Cambridge)

Researchers transplanted engineered pancreatic beta cells into diabetic mice and then induced the cells to produce more than two to three times the typical insulin levels when exposed to light.

(Researchers Develop Insulin-Producing Cells Activated by Light for Diabetes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A clonal B-cell lymphoproliferative disorder arising as a result of post-transplant immunosuppression therapy.

(Monomorphic B-Cell Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

Using a mouse model of alcohol-associated liver disease, mice were transplanted with stool from cytolysin-positive alcoholic hepatitis patients and treated with a cocktail of bacteriophages targeting the cytolytic E. faecalis strains.

(Bacteriophage therapy may ease severity of alcoholic hepatitis, National Institutes of Health)

If the transplanted bone comes from another part of your own body, it is called an autograft.

(Bone Grafts, NIH)