organ harvest
Extracting donor tissues
Organ harvest refers to the surgical removal of organs from a body, typically for transplantation.
The term often carries sinister connotations, implying organs taken without proper consent—from executed prisoners, trafficking victims, or through coerced donation: allegations of forced organ harvesting.
In neutral medical contexts, organ retrieval or procurement are preferred terms.
- transplantMove tissue between bodies
- kidneyBlood-filtering organ
- liverAbdominal detoxifying organ
- black marketIllicit trading system
- surgeryInvasive medical procedure
donor · illegal · trafficking · extraction · removal · surgical team · medical · cadaver · death · hospital · procurement · cornea · heart · body parts · tissue · consent · medical ethics · waiting list
- surgeriessurgery, appendectomy, hysterectomy, minor surgery, elective surgery
- burialburial, cremation, interment, grave, entombment
- paradoxescatch-22, Zeno's paradox, Zeno's paradoxes, causal loop, bootstrap paradox
- transplantsliver transplant, bone marrow transplant, kidney transplant, heart transplant, stem cell transplant
- behavioral testscognitive tests, Skinner box, puzzle box, operant conditioning, startle response
- biomedical researchanimal model, animal testing, drug testing, clinical trial, xenograft