IMPLANTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does implanted mean? 

• IMPLANTED (adjective)
  The adjective IMPLANTED has 1 sense:

1. (used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held

  Familiarity information: IMPLANTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPLANTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held

Synonyms:

deep-rooted; deep-seated; implanted; ingrained; planted

Context example:

a deeply planted need

Similar:

constituted; established (brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established)

 Context examples 

For example, a tooth or bone fragment being swallowed; or device's components or fragments being found in the body away from where they were implanted.

(Foreign Body, Food and Drug Administration)

A surgical procedure that removes something that was implanted in the body.

(Explantation, NCI Thesaurus)

When medicines are not working well, surgery or implanted devices such as vagus nerve stimulators may help.

(Epilepsy, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

An infectious process involving an implanted medical device and the surrounding tissues.

(Implant Infection, NCI Thesaurus)

A bundle of leads designed to connect between a pacing device and implanted heart electrodes.

(Lead Conductor Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

They are devices that are implanted in your chest or abdomen.

(Pacemakers and Implantable Defibrillators, NIH)

An abnormal pregnancy in which the conception is implanted on the ovary.

(Ovarian Pregnancy, NCI Thesaurus)

Issue associated with interconnection between bone tissue and implanted device.

(Osseointegration Issue Associated with Medical Device, Food and Drug Administration)

The drug also inhibited HCV infection in mice implanted with human liver cells.

(Allergy Drug Treats Hepatitis C in Mice, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Small containers or pellets of a solid drug implanted in the body to achieve sustained release of the drug.

(Drug Implant, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)