kidney donor
Living transplant source
A kidney donor is a person who gives one of their kidneys to someone needing a transplant.
Because humans can live with a single kidney, living donation is possible—often from family members or altruistic strangers.
Donors may also be deceased, with organs harvested after death: She's been on the transplant list waiting for a kidney donor.
- organBody's working component
- transplantMove tissue between bodies
- recipientOne who receives something
- livingCurrently having breath
- altruismPrioritizing others' wellbeing
surgery · dialysis · matching · perfect match · tissue · tissue typing · waitlist · nephrectomy · surgical scar · selfless · compatible · blood · waiting list · hospital · scar · recovery · gift · gift of life
- donorscord blood, giver, benefactor, patron, contributor
- Unsung Heroesvolunteer, caregiver, foster parent, hospice worker, food bank volunteer
- kidneysnephron, nephrons, glomerulus, glomeruli, tubules
- transplantsorgan transplant, liver transplant, bone marrow transplant, heart transplant, stem cell transplant
kidney donortransplant recipient
One receiving donated tissue
organ recipient · donee · transplant patient · dialysis patient · transplant surgeon
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