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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Transplantation \Trans`plan*ta"tion\, n. [Cf. F.
transplantation.]
1. The act of transplanting, or the state of being
transplanted; also removal.
The transplantation of Ulysses to Sparta. --Broome.
2. (Surg.) The removal of tissues from a healthy part and
the insertion of them in another place where there is a
lesion; as the transplantation of tissues in autoplasty.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
transplantation
n 1: the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a
new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind) [syn:
{resettlement}, {relocation}]
2: an operation moving an organ from one person (the donor) to
another (the recipient) [syn: {transplant}]
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