# implant
## English
### Etymology

From Middle French implanter, from Latin implantō. By surface analysis, im- +‎ plant.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation):
** (verb): IPA: /ɪmˈplɑːnt/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
** (noun): IPA: /ˈɪmplɑːnt/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American):
** (verb): enPR: ĭmplăntʹ, IPA: /ɪmˈplænt/
** (noun): enPR: ĭmʹplănt', IPA: /ˈɪmˌplænt/
* Rhymes: -ɑːnt, -ænt

### Verb

implant (third-person singular simple present implants, present participle implanting, simple past and past participle implanted)
* (transitive) To fix firmly or set securely or deeply.
** 1778, T. S., “Proposals for raising Female Regiments”, in The Lady's Magazine Or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, volume 9, page 584:That strength of body is often equal to the courage of mind implanted in the fair sex, will not be denied by those who have seen the water-women of Plymouth; the female drudges of Ireland, Wales, and Scotland; the fish-women of Billinsgate; the weeders, podders, and hoppers, who swarm the fields; and the lowest beings of the feminine gender wo swagger in the streets of London.
* (transitive) To insert (something) surgically into the body.
** 2007, Susan M. Ewing, Poodles for Dummies, Wiley publishing, Inc., page 206:If you prefer a “natural look” for your male Poodle, ask your vet about a vasectomy or implanting artificial testicles (called neuticles).
* (intransitive) Of an embryo, to become attached to and embedded in the womb.

#### Synonyms

* (fix firmly or set securely or deeply): embed/imbed, engraft, engrain, graft, insert, instil/instill, plant, root
* (insert (something) surgically into the body): graft

#### Derived terms

* implantable

#### Related terms

* implantation

#### Translations
### Noun

implant (plural implants)
* (medicine) Anything surgically implanted in the body, such as a tissue graft or prosthesis, particularly breast implants.
** 2007, Julie Albrecht Royce, Traveling Michigan's Sunset Coast, Dog Ear Publishing, published 2007, →ISBN, page 420:They existed at a time in history when shock therapy, brain tissue manipulation, implants, drug experimentation and lobotomies were treatments de jour.
** 2015 October 22, “Evaluation in a Dog Model of Three Antimicrobial Glassy Coatings: Prevention of Bone Loss around Implants and Microbial Assessments”, in PLOS ONE‎, →DOI:Microbial samples and peri-implant crestal bone levels of all implant sites were obtained before, during and after the breakdown period.
* (travel) A representative of a travel company, working within the office of a large client and exclusively dealing with that client.

#### Derived terms

* boob implant
* brain implant
* breast implant
* (breast implant): outplant
* cochlear implant

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Tamplin

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [imˈplan]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [imˈplant]

### Noun

implant m (plural implants)
* (medicine) implant

#### Related terms

* implantar

### Further reading

* “implant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “implant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “implant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “implant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## French
### Noun

implant m (plural implants)
* (medicine) implant

#### Descendants

* Turkish: implant

### Further reading

* “implant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English implant, from Middle French implanter, from Latin implantō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈim.plant/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -implant
* Syllabification: im‧plant

### Noun

implant m inan
* (medicine) implant (anything surgically implanted in the body)
    Synonym: wszczep

#### Derived terms

* implantować

#### Related terms

* implantacja
* implantologia

### Further reading

* implant in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* implant in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French implant.

### Noun

implant n (plural implanturi)
* implant