Explanted

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. The act of removing a plant or tissue from its original environment for cultivation or research purposes
2. The process of taking a biological sample from its native context to grow or study it elsewhere
3. A term referring to the transplantation of cells or organisms from their original location to a different site for various applications

Etymology: "Explant" is a plain formation: the Latin prefix "ex-", meaning "out of" or "away from", attached to "plant". The base word has a long history of its own. It descends from Latin "planta", a shoot or cutting, and reached Old English as "plante" before becoming modern "plant". Its sense of a living thing set in the ground is older than its sense of a factory. The verb "explant" applies that same idea to living tissue. To explant is to take a piece of tissue or an organ out of the body, usually so that it can be grown or studied outside it. Because the word is built from "ex-" and "plant" in English, it needs no special coinage story; it is a technical compound made by combining the two parts to describe lifting a living piece out of its place. The past form "explanted" simply marks an action already completed.

Synonyms: removed, extracted, taken out, harvested

Antonyms: implanted, inserted, embedded, placed