organ recipient
Graft surgery beneficiary
An organ recipient is a person who receives a transplanted organ from a donor, whether living or deceased.
The term appears in medical and legal contexts discussing transplantation: Organ recipients must take immunosuppressant drugs for life.
Recipients are typically selected from waiting lists based on medical urgency, compatibility, and time waiting.
- transplantMove tissue between bodies
- transplant listQueue for donated organs
- surgeryInvasive medical procedure
- kidneyBlood-filtering organ
- heartCirculatory system's pump
liver · waiting list · tissue · tissue match · match · rejection · immunosuppressant · hospital · second chance · gratitude · gift of life · new lease on life · survival · donor family · recovery · dialysis · compatible · blood type
- recipientsbeneficiary, payee, grantee, addressee, donee
- transplantsliver transplant, bone marrow transplant, kidney transplant, heart transplant, stem cell transplant
- patientspatient, inpatients, inpatient, outpatients, outpatient
organ recipientorgan donor
Person who bequeaths body parts
donor · living donor · deceased donor · kidney donor · liver donor
organ, recipient, organs, organic, organist, organism, organize, organized, organizer