deceased donor
Posthumous organ source
A deceased donor is someone whose organs or tissues are harvested for transplantation after death.
The term distinguishes from living donors, who give renewable tissues like blood or a single kidney while alive.
Medical protocols require brain death or cardiac death before organ retrieval: She received a kidney from a deceased donor after three years on the waiting list.
- cadaverBody for dissection
- brain deathComplete cessation of neural function
- organBody's working component
- transplantMove tissue between bodies
- harvestGathering mature crops
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deceased donororgan recipient
One receiving donated tissue
transplant recipient · donee · transplant patient · beneficiary
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