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Transplant vs Ingraft - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between transplant and ingraft

is that transplant is to uproot (a growing plant), and plant it in another place while ingraft is an alternative spelling of lang=en.

As a noun transplant

is an act of uprooting and moving (something).

transplant

English

Verb

(transplanting) (en verb)
  • To uproot (a growing plant), and plant it in another place.
  • To remove (something) and establish its residence in another place; to resettle or relocate.
  • (medicine) To transfer (tissue or an organ) from one body to another, or from one part of a body to another.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of uprooting and moving (something).
  • Anything that is transplanted.
  • (medicine) An operation in which tissue or an organ is transplanted.
  • (medicine) A transplanted organ or tissue.
  • (US) Someone who is not native to their area of residence.
  • * 2012 , Lauren Collins, The New Yorker , 29 Oct 2012:
  • The Seigneur summoned the island's doctor, a young transplant from London named Peter Counsell, who determined that Mrs. Beaumont had suffered a stroke.

    ingraft

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1852, author=James Fenimore Cooper, title=Precaution, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage="Why, everything about the colonel seems so seated, so ingrafted in his nature, so--so very self-satisfied, that I am afraid it would be a difficult task to take the first step in amendment--to convince him of its necessity? }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1902, author=John Lord, title=Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIII, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=The dialogue was ingrafted on the chorus, and naturally partook of its character. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1920, author=B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, title=Searchlights on Health, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=In fact, all physical weakness, if ingrafted in either parent, is transmitted from parents to offspring

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