organ transplant
transplant operation, operation in which a healthy organ from one body is transferred into another person's body to replace a failing organ | ||||
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Organ transplant Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
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organ transplant
Noun
1. an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient); "he had a kidney transplant"
(synonym) transplant, transplantation
(hypernym) operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process
(hyponym) keratoplasty, corneal graft, corneal transplant
Noun
1. an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient); "he had a kidney transplant"
(synonym) transplant, transplantation
(hypernym) operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process
(hyponym) keratoplasty, corneal graft, corneal transplant
Organ transplant Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Organ transplant
An organ transplant is the moving of a whole or partial organ from one body to another (or from a donor site on the patient's own body), for the purpose of replacing the recipient's damaged or failing organ with a working one from the donor site. Organ donors can be living, or deceased (previously referred to as cadaveric). Organ transplants can be categorized as "life-saving", while tissue transplants are "life-enhancing".
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