• A surgical procedure in which tissue or an organ is transferred from one area of a person's body to another area, or from one person (the donor) to another person (the recipient).
  NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
• The process of removing an organ or other donated body part from one person and implanting it in another person.
  Harvard Dictionary of Health Terms
  Harvard Medical Publishing, 2011
• Transference of a tissue or organ from either an alive or deceased donor, within an individual, between individuals of the same species, or between individuals of different species.
  NLM Medical Subject Headings
  U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
• Transference of a tissue or organ within an individual, between individuals of the same species, or between individuals of different species.
  NCI Thesaurus
  U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
• Transferring cells, tissues or organs within an individual, between individuals of the same species, or between individuals of different species.
  CRISP Thesaurus
  National Institutes of Health, 2006
• Transplants may be: the patient's own tissue (autografts; eg, bone, bone marrow, and skin grafts), genetically identical (syngeneic [between monozygotic twins]) donor tissue (isografts), genetically dissimilar donor tissue (allografts, or homografts), rarely, grafts from a different species (xenografts, or heterografts).
  Merck Manuals
  Merck & Co., Inc., 2020
• Transplants may be: the patient's own tissue (autografts; eg, bone, bone marrow, and skin grafts), genetically identical (syngeneic [between monozygotic twins]) donor tissue (isografts), genetically dissimilar donor tissue (allografts, or homografts), rarely, grafts from a different species (xenografts, or heterografts).
  Merck Manuals
  Merck & Co., Inc., 2020