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implant

[im-plant, -plahnt, im-plant, -plahnt] / ɪmˈplænt, -ˈplɑnt, ˈɪmˌplænt, -ˌplɑnt /
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insert
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Once glucose levels return to the desired range, the implant automatically shuts down.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026

Organon knows the market for long-acting reversible contraception well: It also owns the hormonal Nexplanon, the only contraceptive implant approved for use in the U.S., and the NuvaRing, a hormonal vaginal ring.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026

This discovery provides the first credible drug target for a condition that affects as many as one in five dental implant recipients and costs healthcare systems worldwide more than $1 billion annually.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

The resulting immune response gradually breaks down the bone supporting the dental implant.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

In addition, the doctor who had repaired my facial nerve installed a tiny electronic sound transmitter called a cochlear implant deep behind my ear.

From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai

Tech enthusiasts are eager for us to merge with machines: Ray Kurzweil, the futurist and inventor, thinks that nanotech brain implants will make us godlike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The previous grafted tissue was then removed and small implants were inserted to support the artificial ear.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

This difference in stiffness could be important because harder implants can trigger inflammatory responses when they remain in the brain for long periods.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

I’d rather own the companies selling devices, implants, injectables and disposable products to thousands of those clinics.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026

Their brains were filled with quiet joy from implants in their skulls.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

Electrical stimulation does not simply affect the brain tissue closest to an implanted electrode.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

These included organoids, which are miniature tumor models grown from patient tissue, as well as human cancer cells cultured in laboratory dishes and implanted into mice.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

That is, it’s low if you go through the full process of having your eggs retrieved at 44, fertilized, and then an embryo implanted.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

Marines implanted an unwitting woman with a genetically modified embryo in order to produce one of its new class of supersoldiers.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

In the afternoon, we head over to my father’s house, where we sit inside, scattered around the living room, hockey playing on yet another giant flat screen that has been implanted into the wall.

From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven

IVF involves stimulating the ovaries to produce eggs, retrieving them, fertilising them in a laboratory and then implanting the resulting embryo back into the womb.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

In clinical terms, IVF involves removing eggs from a woman, fertilizing them in a lab with sperm and implanting embryos in the uterus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

Swiss researchers meanwhile have enabled several paralysed people to regain significant control of their body -- including walking again -- by implanting electrodes into their spinal cords.

From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2025

While implanting a recycled pacemaker is not legal in the U.S., the Food and Drug Administration does allow refurbished devices to be exported.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2024

That may explain why some were willing to sell their teeth to their master for implanting in his own mouth.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis


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