¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Transplants
1. transplant [v] - See also: transplant
Medical Definition of Transplants
1. Organs, tissues, or cells taken from the body for grafting into another area of the same body or into another individual. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Transplants
Literary usage of Transplants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Seeding and Planting: A Manual for the Guidance of Forestry Students by James William Toumey (1916)
"Mechanical Devices for Lifting Seedlings and transplants. — A number of mechanical
devices have been developed in Europe and the United States for lifting ..."
2. Understanding the Immune System by Lydia Woods Schindler (1991)
"Bone Marrow transplants When the immune response is severely ... Bone marrow
transplants are also used to treat patients with cancers of the blood, ..."
3. Cord Blood: Establishing a National Hematopoietic Stem Cell Bank Program by Emily Ann Meyer, Kristine M. Gebbie, Kathi E. Hanna (2005)
"The equivalent probabilities for cord transplants are 10 percent (for adults)
and 20 percent (for children). adult unrelated donor or a cord unit. ..."
4. The Missions and Missionaries of California by Zephyrin Engelhardt (1908)
"He transplants Indians. AT the conclusion of the High Mass on Easter Sunday,
April 3d, Fr. Junipero Serra ascended the pulpit and preached the sermon to the ..."
5. Income Opportunities in Special Forest Products: Self-Help Suggestions for by Margaret G. Thomas (1994)
"... transplants, and forest botanicals for the floral market. A few of the most
commonly harvested products for the floral market are mentioned below (table ..."
6. Trees and Tree-planting by James Sanks Brisbin (1888)
"Preferable transplants. — Timber and Fuel Qualities of Maple. — Its Ornamental
Standard. — The Chief Uses of Maple. — Peculiarity of its Seed. ..."
7. The American Anatomical Memoirs by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1920)
"... the latter exhibit but little if any -of the structural differentiations which
characterize the adult internal secretory organs. Epidermal transplants ..."