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im·plant

vt 1  :  to set permanently in the consciousness or habit patterns  2 a  :  to insert or fix in a living site (as for growth, slow release, or formation of an organic union) <subcutaneously edhormone pellets>   b  :  to insert an implant in <100 patients have been edwith nylon ribbons without complications -U.K. Henschke>  vi  :  to become implanted <the fertilized ovum sin the endometrial lining> 
n :  something (as a graft, a small container of radioactive material for treatment of cancer, or a pellet containing hormones to be gradually absorbed) that is implanted esp. in tissue .
 
 
 
Similar sounding terms:  im·plant·ee 

 
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