Origin: Latin suffix -tion
Transplantation has 3 different meanings across 1 category:
an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient)
"he had a kidney transplant"
"the long-term results of cardiac transplantation are now excellent"
"a child had a multiple organ transplant two months ago"
the act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location
"the transplant did not flower until the second year"
"too frequent transplanting is not good for families"
"she returned to Alabama because she could not bear transplantation"
The resettlement of a group of people.
"The government organized a large-scale transplantation of refugees from the conflict zone to safer regions in the north."
In plain English: Transplantation is moving an organ from one person to another so it can work inside their body.
"The hospital performed a successful heart transplantation on the patient yesterday."
The word comes from the Middle French term transplantation, which was formed by combining transplanter ("to transplant") with a suffix that denotes an action. It entered English to describe the specific process of moving plants, animals, or tissues to a new location.