The noun is pronounced /trænsplɑ:nt, -plænt/. The verb is pronounced /trænsplɑ:nt, -plænt/.
( transplanted)
1.
A transplant is a medical operation in which a part of a person’s body is replaced because it is diseased.
He was recovering from a heart transplant operation.
...the controversy over the sale of human organs for transplant.
N-VAR
2.
If doctors transplant an organ such as a heart or a kidney, they use it to replace a patient’s diseased organ.
The operation to transplant a kidney is now fairly routine.
...transplanted organs such as hearts and kidneys.
VERB : V n , V-ed
• trans‧plan‧ta‧tion
...a shortage of kidneys for transplantation...
N-UNCOUNT : usu with supp
3.
To transplant someone or something means to move them to a different place.
Marriage had transplanted Rebecca from London to Manchester...
Farmers will be able to seed it directly, rather than having to transplant seedlings.
VERB : V n from/to/into n , V n