transplantation
Etymology

From Middle French transplantation, from transplanter + -ation.

Noun

transplantation

  1. The resettlement of a group of people.
  2. A surgical operation in which an organ is moved from a donor to a recipient; an organ transplant.
    1. The medicosurgical specialty (field) concerned with such operations.
    2. A particular instance of such an operation (a single procedure): a transplant.
  3. The uprooting of a tree and planting it in a new location.
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