transplantation

Meanings

Plural: transplantations

Noun

• an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient)
  • "the long-term results of cardiac transplantation are now excellent"
• the act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location
  • "she returned to Alabama because she could not bear transplantation"
• 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 surgical operation in which an organ is moved from a donor to a recipient; an organ transplant.
• A particular instance of such an operation (a single procedure): a transplant.
• The uprooting of a tree and planting it in a new location.

Synonyms

organ transplant, transplant, transplanting