transplant1 nountransplant2 verb
transplanttrans‧plant1 /ˈtrænsplɑːnt $ -plænt/ ●○○ noun 
ExamplesEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- a liver transplant
- a New York transplant to California
- Bombeck began dialysis at her home in Paradise Valley, Arizona, while waiting for a transplant.
- For 17 years, 52-year-old Anthony waited in vain for a kidney transplant.
- Kelly's only hope of survival was a heart and lung transplant.
- She developed progressive liver failure and required a liver transplant.
- The stakes with a child under the age of eight are high for a corneal transplant, Song explains.
- The treatment was first tested in patients who received transplants of bone marrow.
THESAURUS► operation
Collocations noun [countable] the process of cutting into someone’s body to repair or remove a part that is damaged: · He had an operation to remove a blood clot from his brain.
► procedure noun [countable] an operation performed in a particular way on a particular part of the body. Procedure is used especially in medical English, for example by doctors and people who work in hospitals. In everyday English people usually say operation: · a common surgical procedure· The procedure normally only takes a few minutes.
► transplant noun [countable] an operation to remove an organ from one person’s body and put it into another person’s body: · There is a shortage of donors for heart transplants.· She had to have a kidney transplant.
► surgery noun [uncountable] medical treatment involving an operation: · She required surgery on her right knee.· He was taken in for surgery.
► plastic surgery noun [uncountable] surgery to improve someone’s appearance: · The singer has just had plastic surgery on her nose.
► bypass noun [countable] an operation to make someone’s blood flow past a part of their heart that is blocked or damaged, often using a vein that has been removed from another part of their body: · He went into hospital for a triple heart bypass.
► skin graft an operation to repair an area of skin that has been badly damaged, especially using skin from another part of someone’s body: · Her leg was severely burned and may require a skin graft.
WORD SETS► Hospitalaether, nounaftercare, nounambulance, nounamniocentesis, nounampoule, nounamputate, verbanaesthesia, nounanaesthetize, verbanodyne, nounantibiotic, nounantidote, nounantiseptic, nounantiseptic, adjectiveappendectomy, nounartificial respiration, nounastringent, adjectiveastringent, nounbandage, verbbathe, verbbed bath, nounbedpan, nounbiopsy, nounblood bank, nounblood donor, nounblood group, nounbloodletting, nounblood transfusion, nounbrain scan, nounbridge, nouncaesarean, nouncallipers, nouncapsule, nouncardiac, adjectivecast, nouncasualty, nouncatheter, nounCAT scan, nouncauterize, verbcervical smear, nouncesarean, nouncheckup, nounchemotherapy, nounchiropractor, nounclinic, nounclinical, adjectiveclinical thermometer, nouncommit, verbcompress, nounconstruct, verbconsultant, nounconsulting room, nounconvalesce, verbconvalescence, nounconvalescent, nouncosmetic surgery, nouncottage hospital, nouncrown, nouncrown, verbcrutch, nouncurative, adjectivecure, nouncure, verbD and C, nounday room, noundecongestant, noundentistry, noundermatology, noundetox, noundetoxification, noundiagnose, verbdiagnosis, noundiagnostic, adjectivedialysis, noundischarge, verbdischarge, noundispensary, noundoctor, verbdonate, verbdonor, noundress, verbdrug rehabilitation, nounear trumpet, nounECG, nounECT, noun-ectomy, suffixEEG, nounEKG, nounElastoplast, nounelective, adjectiveelectric shock therapy, nounemergency room, nounendoscope, nounenema, nounepidural, nounether, nouneviscerate, verbexam, nounexamination, nounexamine, verbfacelift, nounfilling, nounfirst aid, nounfirst aider, nounfirst aid kit, nounforceps, noungauze, noungeriatrics, noungraft, noungraft, verbgrommet, noungurney, nounhealth care, nounhealth centre, nounhealth service, nounheart-lung machine, nounhospice, nounhospital, nounhypnotherapy, nounhypo, nounhypodermic, nounhypodermic, adjectivehysterectomy, nounice pack, nounimplant, verbimplant, nounincision, nounincubator, nouninduce, verbinfection, nouninfirmary, nouninject, verbinjection, nouninlay, nouninoculate, verbinpatient, nouninseminate, verbinstitutionalize, verbintensive care, nouninternal medicine, nounintravenous, adjectiveinvasive, adjectivein vitro fertilization, nounirrigate, verbisolation, nounisometrics, nounIV, nounIVF, nounkeyhole surgery, nounlamp, nounlaudanum, nounlaughing gas, nounlaxative, nounlife support system, nounlinctus, nounliniment, nounlint, nounlobotomy, nounlumpectomy, nounmammography, nounmanipulate, verbmanipulative, adjectivemassage, nounmassage, verbmastectomy, nounmedical, adjectivemedical, nounmedicine, nounmental hospital, nounmonitor, nounmouth-to-mouth resuscitation, nounMRI, nounNational Health Service, the, negative, adjectivenose job, nounnursing home, nounob/gyn, nounobstetrics, nounoccupational therapy, nounold folks' home, nounold people's home, nounop, nounopen-heart surgery, nounoperable, adjectiveoperate, verboperating room, nounoperating table, nounoperating theatre, nounoperation, nounoperative, adjectiveorthodontics, nounorthopedic, adjectiveorthopedics, nounosteopathy, nounoutpatient, nounoxygen mask, nounoxygen tent, nounpacemaker, nounpack, nounpadded cell, nounpaediatrics, nounpalliative, nounpalpate, verbPap smear, nounpetroleum jelly, nounphial, nounphysiotherapy, nounpill, nounplaster, nounplaster cast, nounplastic surgery, nounpost-mortem, nounpoultice, nounprep, verbprescription, nounpreventive medicine, nounprimary health care, nounprivate medicine, nounprivate patient, nounprobe, nounprophylactic, adjectiveprosthesis, nounquarantine, nounquarantine, verbradiographer, nounradiography, nounradiologist, nounradiology, nounradiotherapy, nounreceive, verbrecovery room, nounrehabilitate, verbreject, verbreset, verbresidential care, nounresidential treatment facility, nounrest home, nounresuscitate, verbrhinoplasty, nounRx, saline, nounsanatorium, nounscalpel, nounscan, nounscreen, verbscreening, nounsection, nounsection, verbsedate, verbset, verbshock treatment, nounsickbay, nounsickroom, nounsilicone implant, nounskin graft, nounsmear, nounsmear test, nounsmelling salts, nounsocialized medicine, nounspatula, nounspecimen, nounsperm bank, nounsplint, nounstaunch, verbstethoscope, nounstitch, nounstomach pump, nounstretcher, nounsurgery, nounsurgical, adjectivesuture, nounswab, nounswab, verbsyringe, nounsyringe, verbtablet, nountape, verbteaching hospital, nountermination, nountheatre, nountherapy, nounthermometer, nountongue depressor, nountourniquet, nountracheotomy, nountranquillize, verbtransfusion, nountransplant, verbtransplant, nountreatment, nountruss, nountuck, nounultrasound, nounvaccinate, verbvasectomy, nounventilator, nounveterinary, adjectivevisiting hours, nounward, nounwell-woman, adjectivewetting solution, nounwheelchair, nounX-ray, nounX-ray, verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a transplant operation
Word family· He is too weak to undergo a transplant operation.
► an organ transplant (=an operation to put an organ from one person’s body into another person’s body)· Up to 5,000 people are waiting for an organ transplant.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► heart· Now heart transplant patient Glenn is a picture of health and just about to lead a walk in north Essex walks week.· Harefield Hospital has carried out 48 heart transplant operations.· Sir Magdi has performed more heart transplants than anyone in the world.· The manoeuvre was different in kind, and even less justifiable, than a heart transplant.· The awe that the heart transplant programme evokes has led to an assumption that a transplant is the solution to heart failure.· Researchers looked back at all 889 patients who were listed for a first heart transplant there in 1997.· Ten months ago she underwent a five-hour lung and heart transplant.
► kidney· For 17 years, 52-year-old Anthony waited in vain for a kidney transplant.· This then chooses the most suitable hospital among those in its district that can perform a kidney transplant.· When he was 18 months old he underwent a kidney transplant.· He had a kidney transplant, 16 other operations and almost two years on dialysis.· Vaccines, antibiotics, insulin for diabetes and kidney transplants are just a few examples.
► liver· Two of these patients died and one survived after receiving an emergency liver transplant allograft.· Lucky was put at the top of the national liver transplant list.· Without a liver transplant those with liver failure will die.· He is seeking a liver transplant.· He specialised in liver transplants and technically complex pancreatic surgery.· She developed progressive liver failure and required a liver transplant.· The long term prospects of the 48 year old man who underwent liver transplant are good.· Well, there are jokes about yeast infections, frostbite, liver transplants and cereal variety packs.
► lung· No, she said, the damage had already been done and what was needed was a heart and lung transplant.· Doctors believe that Jensen is only the second person with Down syndrome to receive a heart and lung transplant.· A heart, liver or lung transplant can save the lives of those whose own organs have failed.· Some can benefit from lung transplants, but patients often die waiting for organs.· Kelly's only hope of survival was a heart and lung transplant.· Pulmonary hypertension was diagnosed and the patient referred for consideration of a lung transplant.· As his condition got worse, Richard's only chance of survival was a heart and lung transplant.· For two years Kelly's been waiting for a heart and lung transplant, the only cure for her condition.
► marrow· A child of Svetlana had desperately needed a bone marrow transplant.· Growth hormones and bone marrow transplants have been tried with little gain, said Shapiro.· His only chance of survival was a bone marrow transplant.· He received two blood transfusions after a bone marrow transplant and wanted the name so he could sue the donor.· D' ya think the City Hospital would do bone marrow transplant?
► operation· Harefield Hospital has carried out 48 heart transplant operations.· Surgeons in Pittsburgh have given the four-year-old the all-clear to travel home following her pioneering liver-bowel transplant operation five months ago.
► organ· The five year old had a multiple organ transplant two months ago.· These include outpatient chemotherapy, vaccines for influenza and hepatitis B and some immunosuppressant drugs for people with organ transplants.· Doctors have been given permission to implant five mechanical hearts in patients too ill to qualify for a live organ transplant.
VERB► need· A child of Svetlana had desperately needed a bone marrow transplant.· Or should it be raised only when a family member needs a transplant?· We hope she won't need a bone-marrow transplant.· Mum Cheryl needs a heart-lung transplant but she has been waiting in vain for a donor since January.· The largest award was for a woman who developed cirrhosis and needed a liver transplant.
► perform· This then chooses the most suitable hospital among those in its district that can perform a kidney transplant.· Sir Magdi has performed more heart transplants than anyone in the world.· In very severely affected cases of cystic fibrosis it's sometimes necessary to perform a heart-lung transplant.
► receive· The treatment was first tested in patients who received transplants of bone marrow.· They have apparently prevented the graft-versus-host reaction from starting up in a number of patients who have received bone-marrow transplants.· Jensen is believed to be the first seriously retarded person to receive a major transplant in the United States.· Two of these patients died and one survived after receiving an emergency liver transplant allograft.
► undergo· Six patients who underwent eight transplants died.· When he was 18 months old he underwent a kidney transplant.· Five of these patients who underwent seven transplants died.· The long term prospects of the 48 year old man who underwent liver transplant are good.· Two of three patients referred died without transplantation: one underwent transplant and survived.· He did not therefore undergo transplant.· Laura underwent a liver-bowel transplant at Pittsburgh Children's Hospital five months ago.
WORD FAMILYnounplanttransplanttransplantationplantationplanterverbplanttransplant
1[countable, uncountable] the operation of transplanting an organ, piece of skin etc → implant: 
heart transplant surgery a bone marrow transplant2[countable] the organ, piece of skin etc that is moved in a transplant operation → implanttransplant1 nountransplant2 verb
transplanttrans‧plant2 /trænsˈplɑːnt $ -ˈplænt/ verb [transitive] Word OriginWORD ORIGINtransplant1
Verb TableOrigin:
1400-1500 Late Latin transplantare, from Latin plantare ‘to plant’VERB TABLE
transplant
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | transplant |
| he, she, it | transplants | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | transplanted |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have transplanted |
| he, she, it | has transplanted | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had transplanted |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will transplant |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have transplanted |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am transplanting |
| he, she, it | is transplanting | |
| you, we, they | are transplanting | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was transplanting |
| you, we, they | were transplanting | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been transplanting |
| he, she, it | has been transplanting | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been transplanting |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be transplanting |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been transplanting |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
word sets- His kidney was transplanted in his daughter.
- The club looks like a little bit of Las Vegas transplanted in Texas.
- You need to transplant that cactus.
- And so James Sherald and his assistants scour the mountains to find any living trees to transplant to his garden.
- Critically ill patients such as Lucky normally receive transplanted livers from a parent.
- His ideal was to transplant the classical Athenian model of direct democracy to the new world.
- In addition to plant sales, Barron offered transplanting and landscape gardening.
- The creeping rhizome produces young plants which can be divided and transplanted.
- The second group represented wild birds transplanted from not far away.
WORD SETS► Gardening
Collocationsallotment, nounannual, nounarbour, nounaspidistra, nounbackyard, nounbarrow, nounbed, nounbillhook, nounbirdbath, nounblackcurrant, nounbloom, nounbloom, verbblossom, nounblossom, verbbonemeal, nounborder, nounbush, nounbusy Lizzie, nouncamellia, nouncane, nouncarnation, nounchrysanthemum, nounclematis, nounclimber, nouncloche, nouncompost, nouncompost, verbconifer, nounconservatory, nouncornflower, nouncrazy paving, nouncultivate, verbcultivation, nouncutting, noundaffodil, noundahlia, nounedge, verbfertilizer, nounfish meal, nounflower, verbflowerbed, nounflowerpot, nounfoliage, nounforget-me-not, nounfork, nounfork, verbfoxglove, nounframe, noungarden, noungarden, verbgarden centre, noungardener, noungardenia, noungazebo, noungeranium, noungerminate, verbgladiolus, nounglasshouse, noungnome, noungraft, noungraft, verbgrass, noungreenfly, noungreenhouse, noungrowbag, nounGrowbag, nounhardware, nounhardy, adjectivehardy perennial, nounheavy, adjectivehedge, nounheliotrope, nounherbaceous border, nounherbicide, nounhibiscus, nounhoe, nounholly, nounhollyhock, nounhoneysuckle, nounhorticulture, nounhose, nounhosepipe, nounhothouse, nounhouseplant, nounhumus, nounhyacinth, nouninsecticide, nouniris, nounivy, nounjasmine, nounkitchen garden, nounlandscape, verblandscape architect, nounlandscape gardening, nounlawn, nounlawn mower, nounlift, verblilac, nounlily of the valley, nounlop, verblush, adjectivemanicured, adjectivemanure, nounmorning glory, nounmow, verbmower, nounmuck, nounmulch, nounmulch, verbnarcissus, nounnursery, nounnurseryman, nounorangery, nounorganic, adjectiveovergrown, adjectiveox-eye, nounpack, verbparterre, nounpatch, nounpeat, nounpeony, nounpergola, nounpesticide, nounpetunia, nounphlox, nounpink, nounplant, verbplanter, nounplot, nounpoinsettia, nounpot, nounpot, verbpot plant, nounpotted, adjectivepotting shed, nounpropagate, verbpropagator, nounprune, verbrake, nounrake, verbrank, adjectiverockery, nounrock garden, nounrose, nounscion, nounsecateurs, nounseed, verbseedbed, nounset, nounshears, nounsickle, nounsnapdragon, nounsod, nounsoil, nounsow, verbspade, nounsprinkler, nounsweet pea, nounsweet william, nountopdressing, nountopiary, nountrain, verbtransplant, verbtrellis, nountrimmer, nountrowel, nounturf, nounturf, verbuproot, verbvegetable, nounwater butt, nounwatering can, nounweed, verbweedkiller, nounweedy, adjectivewheelbarrow, nounwindow box, nounwisteria, nounyard, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a transplant operation
Word family· He is too weak to undergo a transplant operation.
► an organ transplant (=an operation to put an organ from one person’s body into another person’s body)· Up to 5,000 people are waiting for an organ transplant.
WORD FAMILYnounplanttransplanttransplantationplantationplanterverbplanttransplant
1to move an organ, piece of skin etc from one person’s body and put it into another as a form of medical treatment2to move a plant from one place and plant it in another place3formal to move something or someone from one place to another—transplantation /ˌtrænsplɑːnˈteɪʃən $ -plæn-/ noun [uncountable]