单词 | transplantation |
释义 | transplantationn. I. The action of transplanting. 1. The removing of a plant from one place or soil and planting it in another. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > planting > [noun] > transplanting prickingOE transplantation1601 transplanting1608 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xvii. x. 510 Neither need they any remoouing or transplantation at all. 1764 Museum Rusticum IV. 38 The culture of lucerne by transplantation. 1796 C. Marshall Gardening (1813) xviii. 296 In all transplantations, it is proper to shorten some of the roots. 1856 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Flower Garden 25 Take them up for division and transplantation every fourth summer at longest. 2. Transference or removal from one place to another; transportation; esp. the removal of people from one country and settling of them in another. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > transference > [noun] translationc1384 remevement1437 translatingc1454 transferring1573 remove1582 transplantation1606 transactiona1608 removal1610 transumption1615 transduction1656 diabasis1672 transference1766 transfer1785 transferrala1790 transplanting1790 takeover1909 rollover1941 1606 in Cal. State Papers Ireland 551 The transportation and transplantation of the Grames and other[s]..into the realm of Ireland. 1614 S. Purchas Pilgrimage (ed. 2) iv. viii. 385 Those which haue beene here seated by the transplantations of Tamerlane and Ismael..out of other Countries. 1633 in Row Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) 360 That all such oaths and subscriptions at ministers entrie or transplantation be discharged. 1635 A. Gil Sacred Philos. Holy Script. i. xiii. 96 Their foolish thoughts concerning the transplantation of soules. 1720 J. Quincy tr. N. Hodges Loimologia iv. 80 The Transplantation of the Plague from Turkey to Holland. 1883 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. II. 927/2 The Gnostics taught a transplantation of the highest order..into the pleroma. 3. The pretended magical cure of disease by causing it to pass to another person, or to an animal or plant. Obsolete or Historical. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > non-scientific treatments > [noun] > magical transfer of disease transplantation1655 inescation1678 1655 S. Boulton (title) Medicina Magica..containing the general Cures of all Infirmities, by way of Transplantation. 1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. v. xi. 227 An Example of a most violent pain of the Arme, removed by Transplantation. 1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum Transplantation by Approximation (in Nat. Mag.) which is more properly called Approximation, as when a Whitlow is upon a Finger, and is cured by rubbing a Cat's Ear, which is supposed to receive the Pain. 1849 C. A. Harris Dict. Dental Sci. & Med. Terminol. 747/1 Transplantation,..a pretended method of curing disease by making them pass from one person to another. 4. Surgery. The operation of transferring an organ or a portion of tissue from one part of the body, or from one person or animal, to another. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > transplanting and grafting operations > [noun] transplantation1813 grafting1888 transplanting1906 transplant1951 1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 239 Besides those examples that are seen in the transplantation of the teeth, it must be confessed that instances of reunion among parts which had been entirely separated are very rare in the human body. 1881 in Philad. Record No. 3472. 2 The object aimed at was nothing less than the transplantation of bone. 1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II Transplantation, removal of a portion of living tissue from its normal position, and uniting it with living tissue in another place, in order to repair a defect or lessen deformity. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 5 July 6/3 The operation of kidney transplantation. II. Something transplanted. 5. That which has been transplanted; a transplanted company or body. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > colonist or settler > [noun] > inhabitant of colony > collectively transplantationa1641 a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) vii. 467 Salmanassar brought Colonies, and transplantations of mixed people from the countries beyond Euphrates. 1805 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 3 236 He would by propagating and sheltering the new transplantations, have given a vernal..luxuriance to the appearance of the whole surrounding growth. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1601 |
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