transplant surgery
1transplant surgery — operation which involves replacing a body part …
2Surgery — This article is about the medical specialty. For other uses, see Surgery (disambiguation). A cardiothoracic surgeon performs a mitral valve replacement at the Fitzsimons Army Medical Center. Surgery (from the Greek …
3Transplant, heart — A surgical procedure in which a diseased heart is replaced with a healthy heart from a deceased person. The world’s first heart transplant was done on December 3, 1967 by South African surgeon Christiaan Bernard (1922 2001). The recipient… …
4surgery — /serr jeuh ree/, n., pl. surgeries for 3 5. 1. the art, practice, or work of treating diseases, injuries, or deformities by manual or operative procedures. 2. the branch of medicine concerned with such treatment. 3. treatment, as an operation,… …
5transplant — trans|plant1 [trænsˈpla:nt US ˈplænt] v [T] [Date: 1400 1500; : Late Latin; Origin: transplantare, from Latin plantare to plant ] 1.) to move an organ, piece of skin etc from one person s body and put it into another as a form of medical… …
6transplant — 1 verb (T) 1 to move a plant from one place and plant it in another 2 to move an organ, piece of skin etc from one person s body to another 3 formal to move something or someone from one place to another transplantation noun (U) 2 noun (C, U) 1… …
7transplant — [trans plant′; ] also, and for n. always [, trans′plant΄] vt. [ME transplaunten < LL(Ec) transplantare: see TRANS & PLANT] 1. to dig up (a growing plant) from one place and plant it in another 2. to remove (people, animals, etc.) from one… …
8transplant — transplantable, adj. transplantation, n. transplanter, n. v. /trans plant , plahnt /; n. /trans plant , plahnt /, v.t. 1. to remove (a plant) from one place and plant it in another. 2. Surg. to transfer (an organ, tissue, etc.) from one part of… …
9transplant — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ organ ▪ bone marrow, heart, kidney, liver, lung, stem cell, etc. VERB + TRANSPLANT …
10transplant — 01. A 3 year old boy received a liver [transplant] in an 18 hour operation. 02. It took my uncle several months to recover from his heart [transplant] operation. 03. There is always a shortage of organs for [transplantation] in our hospitals. 04 …
