BioConcepts

transplantationtransplantatio (lat.); Transplantation (ger.)

• 1) The removing of a plant from one place or soil and planting it in another. (OED)
  category individual

  12th century AD

  Mystice autem arbor hec, cuius fructus sanguine rubet, Christum designare potest, sanguine passionis rubricandum: qui, feruente persecutione, contra fidem apostolorum instar sinapis attritione augendam, de synagoga ad gentilitatem transferendus est, sicut arbor de terra eradicata et mirabiliter in mare transplantata. Vt hec transplantatio fieret, necesse erat fidem apostolorum augeri contra scandala, que, sicut Dominus predixerat, impossibile erat non euenire.

  Balduinus de Forda (12th cent.). De commendatione fidei (ed. D.N. Bell 1991): cap. 46.

  1601

  Neither need they any remoouing or transplantation at all.

  Holland, P. (transl.) (1601). Pliny, The Historie of the World, vol. 1: 510 (xvii, x).

• 2) The pretended magical cure of disease by causing it to pass to another person, or to an animal or plant. (OED)
  category disease

  before 1541

  zu der arbeyt der transplantation, nemlichen, dasz das zergengliche corpus verendert wird mögen

  Paracelsus (before 1541). Opera II, 685.

  1655

  Cures of all Infirmities, by way of Transplantation

  Boulton, S. (1655). Medicina Magica […] containing the general Cures of all Infirmities, by way of Transplantation.

• 3) The operation of transferring an organ or a portion of tissue from one part of the body, or from one person or animal, to another.
  category disease see also chimera hybrid

  1813

  Besides those examples that are seen in the transplantation of the teeth, it must be confessed that instances of reunion among parts which had been entirely separated are very rare in the human body.

  Thomson, J. (1813). Lectures on Inflammation: 239.