transplant

7 definitions • 8 examples

to move something, or to be moved, from one place or person to another:

The plants should be grown indoors until spring, when they can be transplanted outside.

a medical operation in which a new organ is put into someone's body:

a liver/kidney transplant

transplant surgery

have a transplant He had a heart transplant (= doctors gave him a different, healthier heart instead of his old one).

something, especially a new organ, that has been transplanted:

His body accepted/rejected the transplant.

to move someone or something, or to be moved from one place to another:

[ T ] I transplanted those bushes to the back of the house.

to move tissue or an organ from one person’s body to another’s

a medical operation in which a new organ or tissue is put into someone's body:

He survived a kidney transplant.

someone or something that has moved or been moved from one place to another:

I’m a transplant from California.