Dictionary entry

Transplantation

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.