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implant verb

• insert or fix (tissue or an artificial object) in a person's body, especially by surgery.
• "electrodes had been implanted in his brain"
Similar: insert, embed, bury, lodge, place, put in place, install, introduce, graft, engraft,
Opposite: extract,

implant noun

• a thing implanted in something else, especially a piece of tissue, prosthetic device, or other object implanted in the body.
• "a silicone breast implant"
Similar: transplant, graft, implantation, insert,
Origin: late Middle English: from late Latin implantare ‘engraft’, from Latin in- ‘into’ + plantare ‘to plant’.


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