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Transplanted vs Transplantee - What's the difference?

transplanted | transplantee |

As a verb transplanted

is past tense of transplant.

As a noun transplantee is

someone who is receiving, or has received, an organ transplant.

transplanted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (transplant)

    • 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.

    transplantee

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • someone who is receiving, or has received, an organ transplant