How to say "implant" in Japanese

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  • nounThe noun for an implant, especially a dental one: the artificial tooth root set into the jaw. This loanword is the word you want for the dental sense.
  • つぎ込むつぎこむCommon
    godan verb, transitive verbReally a verb of investing: to sink money, time or effort into something, or to lay out funds. It is seldom the word you want for implanting something physical.
    その学者がくしゃはなけなしの金かねを全部ぜんぶ本ほんにつぎこんだ。↗
    The scholar spent what little money he had on books.
  • 植えるうえるJLPT N4approx.Common
    ichidan verb, transitive verbThe verb for putting something into a place: planting in the ground, inserting into the body, transplanting. It covers 'to implant' in the concrete sense of embedding one thing into another.

Use 「インプラント」 for the noun, especially dental implants; 「植える」 for the verb of planting, inserting or transplanting; 「つぎ込む」 is really about sinking money into something and is seldom the word for physical implantation.

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