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TRANSPLANTATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location
Example:
she returned to Alabama because she could not bear transplantation
Synonyms:
transplant; transplantation; transplanting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("transplantation" is a kind of...):
movement (the act of changing the location of something)
Derivation:
transplant (lift and reset in another soil or situation)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient)
Example:
a child had a multiple organ transplant two months ago
Synonyms:
organ transplant; transplant; transplantation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("transplantation" is a kind of...):
operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transplantation"):
corneal graft; corneal transplant; keratoplasty (a surgical procedure in which part or all of a damaged or diseased cornea is replaced by healthy corneal tissue from a donor)
xenotransplant; xenotransplantation (a surgical procedure in which tissue or whole organs are transfered from one species to another species)
Derivation:
transplant (place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient)
Context examples:
To further explore the role of the intestinal microbiota in autoinflammatory disease, the team performed fecal transplantation studies.
(Diet Affects Autoinflammatory Disease Via Gut Microbes, NIH)
In transplantation, refers to a person's own bone marrow.
(Autologous bone marrow, NCI Dictionary)
Hybrid hepatocytes represent not only the most effective way to repair a diseased liver, but also the safest way to prevent fatal liver failure by cell transplantation.
(Newly discovered cells restore liver damage in mice without cancer risk, NIH)
A combined research program of the National Marrow Donor Program and the Medical College of Wisconsin that collaborates with the global scientific community to advance hematopoietic cell transplantation and cellular therapy research worldwide.
(Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, NCI Thesaurus)
The study involved cancer patients who provided their own fecal sample, which was frozen and stored prior to their cell transplantation procedure.
(Fecal microbiota transplantation helps restore beneficial bacteria in cancer patients, National Institutes of Health)
Although it was originally used to predict mortality during surgery, it is now used to determine the prognosis, as well as the required strength of treatment and the necessity of liver transplantation.
(Child-Pugh Classification, NCI Thesaurus)
Onset is usually within three years of transplantation or immunologic manipulation.
(Chronic Graft Versus Host Disease, NCI Thesaurus)
It is used in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation to prevent graft vs host disease by eliminating T cells via antibody dependent cell cytotoxicity in vivo.
(Campath-1G, NCI Thesaurus)
Kidney dysfunction resulting from complications of bone marrow transplantation.
(Bone Marrow Transplantation Nephropathy, NCI Thesaurus)
Upon prophylactic administration, this vaccine may stimulate specific cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) and antibody responses against EBV-transformed B cells, thereby preventing an EBV-induced post-transplantation lymphoproliferative disorder.
(Autologous Epstein-Barr Virus-Transformed B-Lymphoblastoid Cell Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)
