reimplantationn.
/ˌriːɪmplɑːnˈteɪʃn/, /ˌriːɪmplanˈteɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌriɪmplənˈteɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌriɪmˌplænˈteɪʃ(ə)n/ The action of reimplant v.; an instance of this.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [noun] > growth > implanting again
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > transplanting and grafting operations > [noun] > implantation > again
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > grafting > regrafting
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1657 F. Roberts Mysterium & Medulla Bibliorum iii. vi. 1198 Their Restauration, and Re-implantation of them again into Christ by faith.
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) iii. vi. 281 A Branch torn from a Tree..will resume Life by re-implantation and the Solar Heat.
1738 J. Gill Cause God & Truth IV. 260 The re-implantation of the image of God in man he represents as a thing impossible to be done by either men or angels.
1868 Dental Times 5 75 Dr. Buckingham read a paper on the ‘Reimplantation of Teeth’.
1888 Med. News 52 433/2 (heading) Reimplantation of a trephined button of bone.
1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xxxiii. 948 Metastases may occur..in the lower urinary tract by urinary spread and re-implantation.
1982 A. F. Wallace Progress Plastic Surg. viii. 86 Digital reimplantations and transfers have been performed.
1987 Mod. Judaism 7 59 A grand historic miracle would occur: the reimplantation of an uprooted people in its homeland.
2003 New Yorker 5 May 66/3 The story accompanying it described his break-through reimplantation of the hand of the man in the picture.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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