Implant
noun
Something put inside the body, often by surgery.
She had a pacemaker implant to help manage her heart condition.
Often appears as...
- dental implant
- cochlear implant
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To put something inside the body, often through surgery.
The dentist implanted a false tooth to replace the one I lost.
Often appears as...
- implant a device
- implant a tooth
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Technical
verb
To introduce ideas, principles, or habits to someone.
Parents try to implant good behaviors in their children.
Often appears as...
- implant ideas
- implant principles
noun
Something put inside the body, often by surgery.
She had a pacemaker implant to help manage her heart condition.
Often appears as...
- dental implant
- cochlear implant
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To put something inside the body, often through surgery.
The dentist implanted a false tooth to replace the one I lost.
Often appears as...
- implant a device
- implant a tooth
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To introduce ideas, principles, or habits to someone.
Parents try to implant good behaviors in their children.
Often appears as...
- implant ideas
- implant principles
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Object
Refers to a physical object placed inside the body, not a process or action.
His hip implant made walking easier.
Pro Tip 2/3Surgical Procedure
Usually involves a surgical procedure, implying hospital visits and recovery time.
After her surgery, the implant took a few weeks to heal.
Pro Tip 3/3Medical Context
Primarily used in a medical context, associated with treatment or enhancement.
The spinal cord implant helped alleviate his chronic pain.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Object
Refers to a physical object placed inside the body, not a process or action.
His hip implant made walking easier.
Pro Tip 2/3Surgical Procedure
Usually involves a surgical procedure, implying hospital visits and recovery time.
After her surgery, the implant took a few weeks to heal.
Pro Tip 3/3Medical Context
Primarily used in a medical context, associated with treatment or enhancement.
The spinal cord implant helped alleviate his chronic pain.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Object
Refers to a physical object placed inside the body, not a process or action.
His hip implant made walking easier.
Pro Tip 2/3Surgical Procedure
Usually involves a surgical procedure, implying hospital visits and recovery time.
After her surgery, the implant took a few weeks to heal.
Pro Tip 3/3Medical Context
Primarily used in a medical context, associated with treatment or enhancement.
The spinal cord implant helped alleviate his chronic pain.
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Charles Limb: Building...
that if I had to have a cochlear implant, I'd be heartbroken. I'd just be plainly heartbroken, because I know that music would never sound the same to me. Now this is a video that I'm going to show you of a girl who's born deaf. She's in a very supportive environment. Her mother's doing everything she can.
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New bionics let us run,...
I returned to my sport, stronger and better. Technology had eliminated my disability, and allowed me a new climbing prowess. As a young man, I imagined a future world where technology so advanced could rid the world of disability, a world in which neural implants would allow the visually impaired to see.
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How in vitro fertilizatio...
to implant firmly into the endometrium, the inner lining of the uterus. Once implanted, the cells that are to become the placenta secrete a hormone that signals to the ovulated follicle that there is a pregnancy in the uterus. This helps rescue that follicle, now called the corpus luteum,
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Making neuroscience...
cyborg in the history of mankind and so why are we doing this type of stuff I mean like why would you make a cyborg but it turns out this is the exact same technologies that's being used to treat Parkinson's disease with deep brain stimulation or cochlear implants for for
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Your body vs. implants -...
This starts with free-floating proteins that stick themselves to the surface of the implant. Those proteins include antibodies, which attempt to neutralize the new object and send out a signal that calls other immune cells to the site to strengthen the attack.
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Can we create new senses...
and that requires an invasive surgery. And this can be built for 40 times cheaper than a cochlear implant, which opens up this technology globally, even for the poorest countries. Now, we've been very encouraged by our results with sensory substitution,
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Elon Musk: A future...
But with tiny, tiny wires, very, very tiny wires. Wires so tiny, it’s hard to even see them. And it's very important to have very tiny wires so that when they’re implanted, they don’t damage the brain. How far are you from putting these into humans?
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“BioBot” Roaches Could...
around before you try to kill it you can remember that it may save your life we'd use the technologies used for neural engineering basically the stuff that is used for building cardiac pacemakers we implant these to insects and we try to
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The evolution of the...
Today, doctors and scientists are looking at different eye structures to help design biomechanical implants for the vision impaired. And in the not so distant future, the machines built with the precision and flexibilty of the human eye
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African Wild Cat with a...
actually born to a domestic cat cayenne what we did was we took the sperm and egg from two African wild cats we put them together and created an embryo and then we implanted it and domestic cat and sixty days later gave birth to jazz
Video examples
Charles Limb: Building...
that if I had to have a cochlear implant, I'd be heartbroken. I'd just be plainly heartbroken, because I know that music would never sound the same to me. Now this is a video that I'm going to show you of a girl who's born deaf. She's in a very supportive environment. Her mother's doing everything she can.
Video examples
New bionics let us run,...
I returned to my sport, stronger and better. Technology had eliminated my disability, and allowed me a new climbing prowess. As a young man, I imagined a future world where technology so advanced could rid the world of disability, a world in which neural implants would allow the visually impaired to see.
Video examples
How in vitro fertilizatio...
to implant firmly into the endometrium, the inner lining of the uterus. Once implanted, the cells that are to become the placenta secrete a hormone that signals to the ovulated follicle that there is a pregnancy in the uterus. This helps rescue that follicle, now called the corpus luteum,
Video examples
Making neuroscience...
cyborg in the history of mankind and so why are we doing this type of stuff I mean like why would you make a cyborg but it turns out this is the exact same technologies that's being used to treat Parkinson's disease with deep brain stimulation or cochlear implants for for
Video examples
Your body vs. implants -...
This starts with free-floating proteins that stick themselves to the surface of the implant. Those proteins include antibodies, which attempt to neutralize the new object and send out a signal that calls other immune cells to the site to strengthen the attack.
Video examples
Can we create new senses...
and that requires an invasive surgery. And this can be built for 40 times cheaper than a cochlear implant, which opens up this technology globally, even for the poorest countries. Now, we've been very encouraged by our results with sensory substitution,
Video examples
Elon Musk: A future...
But with tiny, tiny wires, very, very tiny wires. Wires so tiny, it’s hard to even see them. And it's very important to have very tiny wires so that when they’re implanted, they don’t damage the brain. How far are you from putting these into humans?
Video examples
“BioBot” Roaches Could...
around before you try to kill it you can remember that it may save your life we'd use the technologies used for neural engineering basically the stuff that is used for building cardiac pacemakers we implant these to insects and we try to
Video examples
The evolution of the...
Today, doctors and scientists are looking at different eye structures to help design biomechanical implants for the vision impaired. And in the not so distant future, the machines built with the precision and flexibilty of the human eye
Video examples
African Wild Cat with a...
actually born to a domestic cat cayenne what we did was we took the sperm and egg from two African wild cats we put them together and created an embryo and then we implanted it and domestic cat and sixty days later gave birth to jazz
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Quote examples
Kate Winslet
Actress
Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
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Rudolf Steiner
Austrian Philosopher
A feeling for equal rights for other human beings cannot exist in adults if a feeling for authority is not implanted in them during childhood. Otherwise, adults will never become mature enough to recognize the rights of others.
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Josie Totah
American Actress
My family is so loving and so encouraging. Ever since I was little, it was implanted in my head - and my sister's and my brother's - that we could do anything our heart desired to do, and to not be afraid.
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Ernest Mandel
Belgian Author
The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class.
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Marlee Matlin
American Actress
If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that's not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It's about who you are.
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Tobe Hooper
American Director
The influences in my life were all kind of politically, socially implanted. And then there was Watergate.
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Shirley Ballas
English Dancer
I had breast implants done to save my marriage. It was the sorriest day of my life.
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Natalie Portman
American Actress
Breast implants gross me out. I don't think they're attractive at all.
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Plato
Greek Philosopher
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
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Anne Robinson
British Celebrity
Who should have spent their money on a brain implant?
Quote examples
Kate Winslet
Actress
Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
Quote examples
Rudolf Steiner
Austrian Philosopher
A feeling for equal rights for other human beings cannot exist in adults if a feeling for authority is not implanted in them during childhood. Otherwise, adults will never become mature enough to recognize the rights of others.
Quote examples
Josie Totah
American Actress
My family is so loving and so encouraging. Ever since I was little, it was implanted in my head - and my sister's and my brother's - that we could do anything our heart desired to do, and to not be afraid.
Quote examples
Ernest Mandel
Belgian Author
The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class.
Quote examples
Marlee Matlin
American Actress
If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that's not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It's about who you are.
Quote examples
Tobe Hooper
American Director
The influences in my life were all kind of politically, socially implanted. And then there was Watergate.
Quote examples
Shirley Ballas
English Dancer
I had breast implants done to save my marriage. It was the sorriest day of my life.
Quote examples
Natalie Portman
American Actress
Breast implants gross me out. I don't think they're attractive at all.
Quote examples
Plato
Greek Philosopher
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
Quote examples
Anne Robinson
British Celebrity
Who should have spent their money on a brain implant?
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