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Implantation

noun

(embryology) the organic process whereby a fertilized egg becomes implanted in the lining of the uterus of placental mammals. Synonym: nidation.

The act of planting or setting in the ground.

A surgical procedure that places something in the human body.

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... the first to perform the implantation of teeth; and Younger the first to transplant the teeth of man in the jaws of man; the initial operation should be called replantation, as it was merely the replacement of a tooth in a socket from which it had accidentally or intentionally been removed. Hunter drilled a hole in ...

— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould

... in agreement with that of Basch,[Footnote: Monatesschr. f. Kinderh. V., No. ix., Dec. 1909.] who states that implantation of the, ovaries from a pregnant bitch under the skin of the back of a one-year-old bitch that was not pregnant was followed by proliferation of the mammary glands of the latter. After six weeks the glands were ...

— Hormones and Heredity • J. T. Cunningham

... love of the sex as a gem in its matrix. IX. The love of the sex with man is not the origin of conjugial love, but its first rudiment; thus it is like an external natural principle, in which an internal spiritual principle is implanted. X. During the implantation of conjugial love, the love of the sex inverts itself and becomes the chaste love of the sex. XI. The male and the female were created to be the essential form of the marriage of good and truth. XII. They are that form ...

— The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love • Emanuel Swedenborg

... which constitutes its essence. This consciousness arose first in religion, the inmost region of Spirit; but to introduce the principle into the various relations of the actual world involves a more extensive problem than its simple implantation—a problem whose solution and application require a severe and lengthened process of culture. In proof of this we may note that slavery did not cease immediately on the reception of Christianity. Still less did liberty predominate in States; or governments and constitutions adopt ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VII. • Various

... decide if that be the condition of all men. Are you, my brother, conscious of anything within you higher than the common life that belongs to you because you are an immortal soul? Can you say, 'From God's hand I have received the granting and implantation of a new and better life?' Is your claim verified by this, that you are kindred with God in holy affections, in like purposes, loving what He loves, hating what He hates, doing what He wills, accepting what He sends, longing ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) • Alexander Maclaren

... vaccination because under whatever pretext performed the implantation of disease elements into the healthy human organism is irrational and injurious. It is subversive of the fundamental principles of sanitary science, while the attainment of health as a prophylactic measure is rational and in harmony with the ascertained laws of hygiene and consistent ...

— The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 - The Independent Health Magazine • Various