Transplant vs Retransplant - What's the difference?
transplant | retransplant |
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:
To transplant (something) again
*{{quote-journal, 1999, date=February 5, Amnon Peled et al., Dependence of Human Stem Cell Engraftment and Repopulation of NOD/SCID Mice on CXCR4, Science
, passage=Bone marrow cells from mice transplanted 4 to 6 weeks before with human cord blood CD34 cells in panels a and b were retransplanted
To perform organ transplantation again
* {{quote-news, year=1990, date=October 5, author=Brenda Wilhelmson, title=The Wait, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=About 20 percent of patients need to be retransplanted . }}
As verbs the difference between transplant and retransplant
is that transplant is to uproot (a growing plant), and plant it in another place while retransplant is to transplant (something) again.As a noun transplant
is an act of uprooting and moving (something).transplant
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(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.
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