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Transplant vs Retransplant - What's the difference?

transplant | retransplant |

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

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.

    retransplant

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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 citation
  • , 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 citation
  • , passage=About 20 percent of patients need to be retransplanted . }}

    Derived terms

    *retransplantation