donor organ
Life-saving transplant tissue
A donor organ is an organ removed from one person's body to be transplanted into another.
The donor may be living, as with kidney or partial liver donations, or deceased, as with hearts.
She received a donor organ after three years on the waiting list.
The term emphasizes the gift aspect of organ donation.
- transplantMove tissue between bodies
- recipientOne who receives something
- kidneyBlood-filtering organ
- heartCirculatory system's pump
- liverAbdominal detoxifying organ
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donor organartificial organ
Manufactured device replacing anatomy
mechanical organ · artificial heart · mechanical heart · implant · prosthesis
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