donor match
Organ recipient pairing
A donor match is a person whose biological tissue—blood, bone marrow, or organs—is compatible with a recipient's body for transplantation.
Matching minimizes the risk of rejection, where the recipient's immune system attacks foreign tissue.
Finding a match can be difficult, especially for bone marrow, where genetic markers must align closely: They searched the registry for a donor match.
- transplantMove tissue between bodies
- recipientOne who receives something
- organBody's working component
- kidneyBlood-filtering organ
- bone marrowBlood cell birthplace
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- compatibilitycompatible, incompatible, fit, suitable, unsuitable
- transplantsorgan transplant, liver transplant, bone marrow transplant, kidney transplant, heart transplant
- cancer treatmentschemotherapy, immunotherapy, targeted therapy, gene therapy, radiation therapy