Is it called an head transplantation or an body transplantation?

[Deleted]

Got me thinking. What is the correct term?

[Lenonis]

Got me thinking. What is the correct term?

Uh...if you are putting a new head on an existing body it's a head transplant. If you are putting a new body on the existing head it's a body transplant.

If you are just swapping from two bodies, hell if I know.

[Nerdgasm]

Literature calls it a head transplant.

By technical standards (Depending where you live) it should be called body transplant since the patient (the head) is receiving a body.

But everybody calls it head transplant anyway.

[ComputerNerd]

I would argue in most cases the organ being replaced is the defining term, but this is not a single organ.
The head will still be alive as its original "owner", the body will not.
So in my opinion it is a body transplant.

Though the term head transplant is more attention grabbing, so I can see why it is the more popular term amongst the media particularly.

[Teevo]

Please consult the head of vecna.

[Sunseeker]

Technically the direction is based on the recipient. So a "heart transplant" is when an existing person gets a new heart. Since there's no brain from the neck down and therefore no person to receive the "new head" it would technically be a "body transplant".

But people call it a head transplant because SCIENCE!!!!

[Rudkobing]

Head transplant.