Transplant vs Ingraft - What's the difference?
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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.
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:
* {{quote-book, year=1852, author=James Fenimore Cooper, title=Precaution, chapter=, edition=
, 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=
, 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=
, passage=In fact, all physical weakness, if ingrafted in either parent, is transmitted from parents to offspring
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
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Verb
(transplanting) (en verb)Noun
(en noun)- 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
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Verb
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