ORGAN TRANSPLANT
Dictionary entry overview: What does organ transplant mean?
• ORGAN TRANSPLANT (noun)
The noun ORGAN TRANSPLANT has 1 sense:
1. an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient)
Familiarity information: ORGAN TRANSPLANT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ORGAN TRANSPLANT (noun)
Meaning:
An operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
organ transplant; transplantation; transplant
Context examples:
he had a kidney transplant / the long-term results of cardiac transplantation are now excellent / a child had a multiple organ transplant two months ago
Hypernyms ("organ transplant" is a kind of...):
operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "organ transplant"):
corneal graft; corneal transplant; keratoplasty (a surgical procedure in which part or all of a damaged or diseased cornea is replaced by healthy corneal tissue from a donor)
xenotransplant; xenotransplantation (a surgical procedure in which tissue or whole organs are transfered from one species to another species)
