Talk:hair transplant

RFD discussion: February–April 2021
A transplant of hair. &mdash; surjection &lang;??&rang; 09:56, 20 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete, SoP - you can basically add any + transplant. --Robbie SWE (talk) 19:16, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete unless we want spleen transplant. Khemehekis (talk) 10:27, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
 * There's something a little unusual here in that most "X transplant" expressions denote an X taken from one body (the donor) and given to another (the recipient). But, AFAICT, hair transplants always involve tissue taken from one part of the body and implanted in another. But it may be a stretch to say that satisfies WT:FRIED. In any case, I'll note that we probably should have an entry for the related term hair plugs. Colin M (talk) 18:13, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete, I think the distinction described by Colin M is primarily a biological constraint of land mammals, not something that passes the fried-egg test. ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  19:25, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep if Colin M is right that the term applies exclusively to "tissue taken from one part of the body implanted in another." Imetsia (talk) 20:04, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per Mihia below. Imetsia (talk) 21:29, 27 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Keep &mdash; Dentonius 18:48, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Vote is stricken. Imetsia (talk) 00:13, 3 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete. The self-donor distinction doesn't seem to fully hold up, since, while the term "graft" may often be used instead, I can fairly quickly find references to e.g. "muscle transplant" from one part of the body to another, and also "vein transplant" . Apparently, "Hair can also be transplanted between identical twins who have the same genetic makeup" . Noting also that our medical sense of noun transplant refers to the verb, which in turn says "To transfer (tissue or an organ) from one body to another, or from one part of a body to another " (my emphasis). Finally, I would say that the present definition "a surgical procedure used to treat baldness or hair loss" betrays the term's SoPness with its apparent assumption that the reader already knows, or can discover, what a "hair transplant" actually is from the individual words. Mihia (talk) 20:55, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
 * RFD-deleted. Imetsia (talk) 00:13, 3 April 2021 (UTC)