TRANSPLANTATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does transplantation mean? 

• TRANSPLANTATION (noun)
  The noun TRANSPLANTATION has 2 senses:

1. an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient)

2. the act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location

  Familiarity information: TRANSPLANTATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRANSPLANTATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

organ transplant; transplant; transplantation

Context example:

a child had a multiple organ transplant two months ago

Hypernyms ("transplantation" is a kind of...):

operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transplantation"):

corneal graft; corneal transplant; keratoplasty (a surgical procedure in which part or all of a damaged or diseased cornea is replaced by healthy corneal tissue from a donor)

xenotransplant; xenotransplantation (a surgical procedure in which tissue or whole organs are transfered from one species to another species)

Derivation:

transplant (place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

transplant; transplantation; transplanting

Context example:

she returned to Alabama because she could not bear transplantation

Hypernyms ("transplantation" is a kind of...):

movement (the act of changing the location of something)

Derivation:

transplant (lift and reset in another soil or situation)

 Context examples 

In transplantation, refers to a person’s own white blood cells.

(Autologous lymphocyte, NCI Dictionary)

Administering ATG with chemotherapy prior to stem cell transplantation may reduce the risk of graft-versus-host (GVH) disease.

(Anti-Thymocyte Globulin, NCI Thesaurus)

This injury model, known as ischemia reperfusion, is similar to what occurs during organ transplantation, stroke, or heart attack in humans.

(Pathways Underlying the Benefits of Calorie Restriction, NIH)

But only 4 per cent of populations in low-income countries had access to dialysis or transplantation compared to 60 per cent in high-income countries.

(Managing diabetes key to lowering kidney disease, SciDev.Net)

Bone marrow transplantation has serious risks.

(Bone Marrow Transplantation, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Some may involve hormone therapy, biologic therapy, or stem cell transplantation.

(Cancer, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

Someone from whom an organ is removed for transplantation or other purpose.

(Organ Donor, NCI Thesaurus)

Lymphomas that occur after bone marrow or stem cell transplantation are usually B-cell NHLs.

(NHL, NCI Dictionary)

In some cases bone marrow and blood stem cell transplantation might help.

(Childhood Leukemia, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

Donor T cell therapy following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplantation may result in a graft-versus-leukemia (GVL) and help control transplant-related viral infections.

(CD34/TK75 Retroviral Vector-Transduced Donor Lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)