transplantation

See also: Transplantation

English

Etymology

From Middle French transplantation, from transplanter (“to transplant”) + -ation (suffix indicating an action or process).

Pronunciation

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Noun

transplantation (countable and uncountable, plural transplantations)

1. The resettlement of a group of people.
2. A surgical operation in which an organ is moved from a donor to a recipient; an organ transplant.
   1. The medicosurgical specialty (field) concerned with such operations.
   2. A particular instance of such an operation (a single procedure): a transplant.
3. The uprooting of a tree and planting it in a new location.
   • 1761, John Mordant, The Complete Steward:

     There is no tree admits of transplantation so well as the Elm, for a tree of twenty years growth will admit of a remove.

Derived terms

• allotransplantation
• autotransplantation
• cotransplantation
• fecal microbiota transplantation
• haplotransplantation
• heterotransplantation
• homeotransplantation
• homotransplantation
• isotransplantation
• microtransplantation
• neurotransplantation
• nontransplantation
• orthotransplantation
• peritransplantation
• posttransplantation
• pretransplantation
• retransplantation
• syngeneic transplantation
• syngenesiotransplantation
• vasotransplantation
• xenotransplantation

 

Translations

The resettlement of a group of people

• Bulgarian: преселване n (preselvane)
• Finnish: väestönsiirto (fi)
• German: Umsiedlung (de) f
• Maori: whakanohonga, whakanohonohonga, whakanōhanga
• Russian: переселе́ние (ru) n (pereselénije)

A surgical operation

• Armenian: փոխպատվաստում (hy) (pʻoxpatvastum)
• Belarusian: транспланта́цыя f (transplantácyja)
• Bulgarian: транспланта́ция f (transplantácija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 移植 (zh) (yízhí)

• Czech: transplantace (cs) f
• Finnish: elimensiirto
• French: transplantation (fr) f
• German: Transplantation (de) f
• Hungarian: átültetés (hu), szervátültetés (hu)
• Italian: trapianto (it), trapiantazione
• Japanese: 移植 (ja) (いしょく, ishoku)
• Kazakh: транспланттау (transplanttau), ауыстырып салу (auystyryp salu)
• Maori: huarangatanga
• Polish: transplantacja (pl) f, przeszczep (pl) m
• Portuguese: transplantação
• Russian: транспланта́ция (ru) f (transplantácija), переса́дка (ru) f (peresádka)
• Spanish: trasplante (es)
• Swedish: transplantation (sv) c

The uprooting of a tree and planting it in a new location

• Bulgarian: пресаждане n (presaždane)
• Finnish: siirtoistutus
• German: Umpflanzung f
• Maori: huarangatanga
• Russian: переса́живание (ru) n (peresáživanije)

French

Etymology

From transplanter +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

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Noun

transplantation f (plural transplantations)

1. transplantation (all senses)

Further reading

• “transplantation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.