different between implant vs implantation

English

Etymology

From Middle French implanter, from Latin implant?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation):
  • (verb): IPA^(key): /?m?pl??nt/
  • (noun): IPA^(key): /??mpl??nt/
• (General American):
  • (verb): enPR: ?mpl?nt?, IPA^(key): /?m?plænt/
  • (noun): enPR: ?m?pl?nt', IPA^(key): /??m?plænt/
• Rhymes: -??nt, -ænt

Verb

implant (third-person singular simple present implants, present participle implanting, simple past and past participle implanted)

1. (transitive) To fix firmly or set securely or deeply.
2. (transitive) To insert (something) surgically into the body.
3. (intransitive) Of an embryo, to become attached to and embedded in the womb.

Synonyms

• (fix firmly or set securely or deeply): embed/imbed, engraft, engrain, graft, insert, instil/instill, plant, root
• (insert (something) surgically into the body): graft

Derived terms

• implantable

Related terms

• implantation

Translations

Noun

implant (plural implants)

1. Anything surgically implanted in the body, such as a tissue graft or prosthesis, particularly breast implants.
2. (travel) A representative of a travel company, working within the office of a large client and exclusively dealing with that client.

Derived terms

• (breast implant): outplant

Translations

Anagrams

• Tamplin

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /im?plant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /im?plan/

Noun

implant m (plural implants)

1. (medicine) implant

Related terms

• implantar

Further reading

• “implant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “implant” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “implant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “implant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Noun

implant m (plural implants)

1. (medicine) implant

Further reading

• “implant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Polish

Etymology

From English implant, from Middle French implanter, from Latin implant?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?im.plant/

Noun

implant m inan

1. (medicine) implant (anything surgically implanted in the body)

   Synonym: wszczep

Declension

Derived terms

• (verb) implantowa?

Related terms

• (nouns) implantacja, implantologia

Further reading

• implant in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• implant in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French implant

Noun

implant n (plural implanturi)

1. implant

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle French implantation.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mpl??n?te??(?)n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

implantation (countable and uncountable, plural implantations)

1. (anatomy) The way in which an organ, bone, muscle etc. becomes inserted into its set place.
2. Planting; securing a plant etc. into the ground.
3. The introduction of a notion, idea or thought into someone's mind.
4. (surgery) The act of inserting a medical implant.
5. (embryology) The attachment of the fertilized ovum to the uterus wall.
6. (physics) The insertion of ions into the crystal structure of another material through ion bombardment.

Translations

French

Pronunciation

Noun

implantation f (plural implantations)

1. implantation

Further reading

• “implantation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).