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A promise your body hasn't agreed to keep forever.
means To insert or fix something into tissue, or an object so inserted — from a breast implant to a false memory planted so skillfully it feels like your own.
from From Latin implantare — 'in-' plus 'plantare,' to plant. The same root that gives us 'plant' the verb: pressing something into soil and trusting it to take. By the late 1800s doctors borrowed the word for grafting material into living tissue, betting the body would accept the stranger as kin.
- lifespan myth
- breast implants often need replacing after 10-15 years
- dental version
- titanium screws that fuse directly into jawbone
- oldest evidence
- ancient mayans implanted carved jade into teeth
- rejection risk
- the body can wall off implants as foreign