reimplants

Surgically restores again

Reimplants is the third-person singular of reimplant, meaning to implant again.

The term appears most often in medical contexts: a surgeon reimplants a severed finger, or a dentist reimplants a tooth that was knocked out.

The team successfully reimplants the patient's own tissue after removing the tumor.

medical

surgery

Invasive medical procedure

sterilization · autograft · allograft · rejection · immunosuppression · donor · recipient · tissue · vascularization · microsurgery

orthopedic

joint

Shared by multiple parties

  • hipFashionable or pelvic joint
  • kneeLeg's middle hinge
  • fixationPersistent mental attachment

titanium · screws · plates · prosthesis · mobility · revision surgery · rod · spine · shoulder · fracture

dental

crown

Sovereign's ornamental headpiece

fixture · molar · incisor · canine · premolar · gingiva · alveolar · maxilla · mandible · occlusion

cardiac

pacemaker

Device regulating heartbeat

electrode · battery · lead · generator · cardioversion · arrhythmia · chest · subcutaneous · pulse · monitoring

cosmetic

breast

Upper front torso

augmentation · revision · rupture · reconstruction · mastectomy · contour · aesthetic · symmetry · plastic surgeon · exchange

Opposites
surgical/medical action

reimplantsremoves

Takes something out

extracts · excises · takes out · dislodges · withdraws

permanence of removal

reimplantsdiscards

Things thrown away

abandons · rejects

Family

reimplant, reimplanted, reimplantation, reimplanting, reimplantations

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