2. Adjective. Removed from a natural site of growth, and placed in a culture medium (especially in relation to plants) ¹
3. Adjective. Removed from the body (especially in relation to organs) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Explanted
1. explant [v] - See also: explant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Explanted
Literary usage of Explanted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Year Book by Carnegie Institution of Washington (1919)
"It is of interest to note that, whereas the fibers of the explanted piece ...
In tissue cultures smooth-muscle cells grow out from the explanted piece of ..."
2. Year books by Plainfield High School (Plainfield, N.J.) (1919)
"Muscle-buds, growing out from the cut ends of the fibers, begin to project from
the edges of the explanted pieces at the end of the first day after being ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1922)
"The hydrogen-ion concentration of the cultures explanted into these ...
Approximately one hundred cultures were explanted into solutions pH 6, 7, 8, and 9. ..."
4. Code of Federal Regulations, Title 21, Food and Drugs, Pt. 800-1299, Revised by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Staff (2005)
"... (5) If and when applicable, the date the device was explanted, the date of
the patient's death, on the date the device was returned to the distributor, ..."
5. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"The effect of estrogens on prostatic epithelium may be dependent on the age of
the explanted tissue. For instance in organ cultures of prostates from ..."
6. Year Book by Carnegie Institution of Washington (1921)
"In order to test the effect of different concentrations of hypotonic and hypertonic
solutions upon normal cells, Dr. MJ Hogue explanted pieces from the ..."
7. The System of Animate Nature: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the by John Arthur Thomson (1920)
"It has received remarkable illustration in the astounding facts established in
regard to the continued life of excised or explanted fragments or even cells. ..."
8. Mammalian Models for Research on Aging by Bennett J. Cohen, Institute Of Laboratory Animal Resources, National Research Council Staff (1981)
"Small pieces of tissue are explanted into a culture environment that will support
cell proliferation. Initially, cells migrate from the explant, ..."
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