Home › Words › E › explantationexplantationexplantation means the act of explanting.EtymologyFrom explant + -ation.nounThe act of explanting.e.g.“Eight explantations were done due to infection and seven due to loss of effect.” — 2008, Gopal Badlani, Continence: Current Concepts and Treatment Strategies, page 223:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.displantation 70% match — The act of displanting or uprooting; removal or displacement. vs explantation →implantment 65% match — The act or process of implanting something; implantation. vs explantation →transplantectomy 63% match — The excision of a transplant. vs explantation →deplantation 62% match — The removal of plants from beds; uprooting vs explantation →reimplantation 61% match — The act of implanting again. vs explantation →displant 60% match — To remove anything from where it has been planted or placed; to drive a person from their home. vs explantation →exantlation 60% match — The action of drawing something out, as though from a well. vs explantation →unplant 59% match — To dig up and remove (something planted). vs explantation →