Also means
to relocate
Usage Note
Trapiantare takes avere as its auxiliary. In medicine it means to perform a transplant (trapiantare un rene — 'to transplant a kidney'); in horticulture, to transplant a seedling. Figuratively, trapiantarsi (reflexive) means to uproot oneself and settle elsewhere: si è trapiantata a Milano ('she relocated to Milan'). The noun is trapianto.
Examples
"I medici hanno trapiantato il fegato con successo."
Natural Translation
The doctors successfully transplanted the liver.
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