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  • Welcome to the Voice of America's news words.

  • 41 year old Patrick Hardison is recovering well after a rare and new medical treatment in a New York hospital transplant.

  • Hardison remains in the hospital, where the medical staff monitor seem for a possible rejection of the new tissue, which is common after transplant surgeries.

  • Rodriguez, who led the procedure and Hardison, said face transplants are not common.

  • A transplant is when a patient receives an organ or other parts of the body from someone else.

  • Transplant can also mean to move people or items from one place to another.

  • Now, when you hear the word transplant, you will know what this news word means.

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