organ donations
Lifesaving body gifts
Organ donations are gifts of body parts—hearts, kidneys, livers, corneas—for transplantation into patients who need them.
Most donations occur after the donor's death, though living donors can give a kidney or part of a liver.
She signed up to be an organ donor.
The phrase often appears in discussions of donor registries and end-of-life decisions.
- transplantMove tissue between bodies
- kidneyBlood-filtering organ
- procurementObtaining goods externally
- recipientOne who receives something
- transplant listQueue for donated organs
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- philanthropydonations, charity work, give, giving, foundations
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