transplantation
(trɑːnsplɑːnˈteɪʃən, træns-)
[n. of action from transplant v.: cf. plantation. So F. transplantation (16th c.).]
I. The action of transplanting.
1. The removing of a plant from one place or soil and planting it in another.
| 1601 Holland Pliny xvii. x. I. 510 Neither need they any remoouing or transplantation at all. 1764 Museum Rust. IV. 38 The culture of lucerne by transplantation. 1796 C. Marshall Garden. xviii. (1813) 296 In all transplantations, it is proper to shorten some of the roots. 1856 Delamer Fl. Gard. (1861) 25 Take them up for division and transplantation every fourth summer at longest. |
2. Transference or removal from one place to another; transportation; esp. the removal of people from one country and settling of them in another.
| 1606 in Calr. S.P., Irel. 551 The transportation and transplantation of the Grames and other[s]..into the realm of Ireland. 1614 Purchas Pilgrimage iv. viii. (ed. 2) 385 Those which haue beene here seated by the transplantations of Tamerlane and Ismael..out of other Countries. 1625 Gill Sacr. Philos. i. 96 Their foolish thoughts concerning the transplantation of soules. 1633 in Row Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) 360 That all such oaths and subscriptions at ministers entrie or transplantation be discharged. 1720 Quincy tr. Hodges' Loimologia 80 The Transplantation of the Plague from Turkey to Holland. 1882–3 Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. II. 927/2 The Gnostics taught a transplantation of the highest order..into the pleroma. |
3. The pretended magical cure of disease by causing it to pass to another person, or to an animal or plant. Obs. or Hist.
| 1655 S. Boulton (title) Medicina Magica..containing the general Cures of all Infirmities, by way of Transplantation. 1663 Boyle Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. ii. v. xi. 227 An Example of a most violent pain of the Arme, removed by Transplantation. 1730 Bailey (folio), Transplantation by Approximation (in Nat. Mag.) which is more properly called Approximation, as when a Whitlow is upon a Finger, and is cured by rubbing a Cat's Ear, which is supposed to receive the Pain. 1854–67 C. A. Harris Dict. Med. Terminol., Transplantation,..a pretended method of curing diseases by making them pass from one person to another. |
4. Surg. The operation of transferring an organ or a portion of tissue from one part of the body, or from one person or animal, to another.
| 1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflam. 239 Besides those examples that are seen in the transplantation of the teeth, it must be confessed that instances of reunion among parts which had been entirely separated are very rare in the human body. 1881 in Philad. Record No. 3472. 2 The object aimed at was nothing less than the transplantation of bone. 1890 Billings Med. Dict., Transplantation, removal of a portion of living tissue from its normal position, and uniting it with living tissue in another place, in order to repair a defect or lessen deformity. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 5 July 6/3 The operation of kidney transplantation. |
II. 5. That which has been transplanted; a transplanted company or body.
| a 1641 Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. vii. (1642) 467 Salmanassar brought Colonies, and transplantations of mixed people from the countries beyond Euphrates. 1805 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. III. 236 He would by propagating and sheltering the new transplantations, have given a vernal..luxuriance to the appearance of the whole surrounding growth. |