I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a transplant operation
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He is too weak to undergo a transplant operation.
an organ transplant (= an operation to put an organ from one person’s body into another person’s body )
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Up to 5,000 people are waiting for an organ transplant.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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His kidney was transplanted in his daughter.
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The club looks like a little bit of Las Vegas transplanted in Texas.
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You need to transplant that cactus.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And so James Sherald and his assistants scour the mountains to find any living trees to transplant to his garden.
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Critically ill patients such as Lucky normally receive transplanted livers from a parent.
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His ideal was to transplant the classical Athenian model of direct democracy to the new world.
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In addition to plant sales, Barron offered transplanting and landscape gardening.
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The creeping rhizome produces young plants which can be divided and transplanted.
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The second group represented wild birds transplanted from not far away.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
heart
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Now heart transplant patient Glenn is a picture of health and just about to lead a walk in north Essex walks week.
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Harefield Hospital has carried out 48 heart transplant operations.
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Sir Magdi has performed more heart transplants than anyone in the world.
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The manoeuvre was different in kind, and even less justifiable, than a heart transplant .
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The awe that the heart transplant programme evokes has led to an assumption that a transplant is the solution to heart failure.
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Researchers looked back at all 889 patients who were listed for a first heart transplant there in 1997.
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Ten months ago she underwent a five-hour lung and heart transplant .
kidney
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For 17 years, 52-year-old Anthony waited in vain for a kidney transplant .
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This then chooses the most suitable hospital among those in its district that can perform a kidney transplant .
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When he was 18 months old he underwent a kidney transplant .
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He had a kidney transplant , 16 other operations and almost two years on dialysis.
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Vaccines, antibiotics, insulin for diabetes and kidney transplants are just a few examples.
liver
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Two of these patients died and one survived after receiving an emergency liver transplant allograft.
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Lucky was put at the top of the national liver transplant list.
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Without a liver transplant those with liver failure will die.
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He is seeking a liver transplant .
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He specialised in liver transplants and technically complex pancreatic surgery.
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She developed progressive liver failure and required a liver transplant .
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The long term prospects of the 48 year old man who underwent liver transplant are good.
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Well, there are jokes about yeast infections, frostbite, liver transplants and cereal variety packs.
lung
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No, she said, the damage had already been done and what was needed was a heart and lung transplant .
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Doctors believe that Jensen is only the second person with Down syndrome to receive a heart and lung transplant .
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A heart, liver or lung transplant can save the lives of those whose own organs have failed.
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Some can benefit from lung transplants , but patients often die waiting for organs.
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Kelly's only hope of survival was a heart and lung transplant .
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Pulmonary hypertension was diagnosed and the patient referred for consideration of a lung transplant .
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As his condition got worse, Richard's only chance of survival was a heart and lung transplant .
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For two years Kelly's been waiting for a heart and lung transplant , the only cure for her condition.
marrow
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A child of Svetlana had desperately needed a bone marrow transplant .
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Growth hormones and bone marrow transplants have been tried with little gain, said Shapiro.
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His only chance of survival was a bone marrow transplant .
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He received two blood transfusions after a bone marrow transplant and wanted the name so he could sue the donor.
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D' ya think the City Hospital would do bone marrow transplant ?
operation
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Harefield Hospital has carried out 48 heart transplant operations .
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Surgeons in Pittsburgh have given the four-year-old the all-clear to travel home following her pioneering liver-bowel transplant operation five months ago.
organ
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The five year old had a multiple organ transplant two months ago.
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These include outpatient chemotherapy, vaccines for influenza and hepatitis B and some immunosuppressant drugs for people with organ transplants .
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Doctors have been given permission to implant five mechanical hearts in patients too ill to qualify for a live organ transplant .
■ VERB
need
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A child of Svetlana had desperately needed a bone marrow transplant .
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Or should it be raised only when a family member needs a transplant ?
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We hope she won't need a bone-marrow transplant .
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Mum Cheryl needs a heart-lung transplant but she has been waiting in vain for a donor since January.
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The largest award was for a woman who developed cirrhosis and needed a liver transplant .
perform
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This then chooses the most suitable hospital among those in its district that can perform a kidney transplant .
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Sir Magdi has performed more heart transplants than anyone in the world.
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In very severely affected cases of cystic fibrosis it's sometimes necessary to perform a heart-lung transplant .
receive
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The treatment was first tested in patients who received transplants of bone marrow.
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They have apparently prevented the graft-versus-host reaction from starting up in a number of patients who have received bone-marrow transplants .
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Jensen is believed to be the first seriously retarded person to receive a major transplant in the United States.
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Two of these patients died and one survived after receiving an emergency liver transplant allograft.
undergo
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Six patients who underwent eight transplants died.
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When he was 18 months old he underwent a kidney transplant .
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Five of these patients who underwent seven transplants died.
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The long term prospects of the 48 year old man who underwent liver transplant are good.
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Two of three patients referred died without transplantation: one underwent transplant and survived.
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He did not therefore undergo transplant .
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Laura underwent a liver-bowel transplant at Pittsburgh Children's Hospital five months ago.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a liver transplant
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a New York transplant to California
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bombeck began dialysis at her home in Paradise Valley, Arizona, while waiting for a transplant .
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For 17 years, 52-year-old Anthony waited in vain for a kidney transplant .
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Kelly's only hope of survival was a heart and lung transplant .
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She developed progressive liver failure and required a liver transplant .
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The stakes with a child under the age of eight are high for a corneal transplant , Song explains.
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The treatment was first tested in patients who received transplants of bone marrow.