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/trˌænzplæntˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Transplantation n.

The act of transplanting, or the state of being transplanted; also, removal. "The transplantation of Ulysses to Sparta."

(Surg.) The removal of tissues from a healthy part, and the insertion of them in another place where there is a lesion; as, the transplantation of tissues in autoplasty.

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Etymology of 'Transplantation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Transplantation" Quotes from Famous Books

... home?—was intensified perhaps to painfulness. She could interpret the shadow on her father's brow for days after into what it truly signified; that, however the young natures might take root in foreign soil, he was too old an oak for transplantation. Back he looked on fifty-eight years of life, since he could remember being the petted and cherished heir of Dunore; and now—an exile! But he never spoke of the longing for the old land; it was only seen in his poring over every scrap of news from ...

— Cedar Creek - From the Shanty to the Settlement • Elizabeth Hely Walshe

... made numerous experiments in the transplantation of wild species of mammals and birds from one country, or continent, to another. About one-half these efforts have been beneficial, and the ...

— Our Vanishing Wild Life - Its Extermination and Preservation • William T. Hornaday

... Captain Bligh was sent from England to Otaheite in charge of the Bounty, a ship which had been especially fitted out to carry young plants of the breadfruit tree for transplantation in the ...

— The Junior Classics • Various

... amused himself with examining a printed proclamation concerning the "Tiend Commissioners and Transplantation off Paroch Kirkis," which was pasted over the stone mantelpiece of the bar, the landlord returned with the foreign gentleman's thanks, and an invitation to his chamber, whither the Major immediately repaired; following the host up a narrow stone spiral stair to a snugly wainscotted ...

— The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 • Various

... each new enlargement of his sphere of knowledge, outward or inward, the same necessities make themselves felt. The beginnings and progressive advances of moral philosophy in Greece, [Footnote: See Lobeck, Phrynichus, p. 350.] the transplantation of the same to Rome, the rise of the scholastic, and then of the mystic, theology in the Middle Ages, the discoveries of modern science and natural philosophy, these each and all have been accompanied with corresponding ...

— On the Study of Words • Richard C Trench

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