transmigration

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the passage of a soul after death into another body or form of life

   The dialogue describes the transmigration of a human soul into an animal.

2. 2
   noun

   rare: movement from one place, country, condition, or state of existence to another

   The memoir presents exile as a painful transmigration into a new society.

3. 3
   noun

   in biology, the movement of cells through a membrane or tissue layer

   The study measured the transmigration of leukocytes through the vessel wall.

From Late Latin transmigratio, from transmigrare ("to migrate across"), combining trans- ("across") with migrare ("to move, migrate"). The religious sense became especially prominent in discussions of souls passing between bodies.

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