Transplant vs Transplantation - What's the difference?
transplant | transplantation |
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:
The resettlement of a group of people
A surgical operation in which an organ is moved from a donor to a recipient; an organ transplant
The uprooting of a tree and planting it in a new location
As nouns the difference between transplant and transplantation
is that transplant is an act of uprooting and moving (something) while transplantation is the resettlement of a group of people.As a verb transplant
is to uproot (a growing plant), and plant it in another place.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.
