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ORGAN TRANSPLANT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient)
Example:
a child had a multiple organ transplant two months ago
Synonyms:
organ transplant; transplant; transplantation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("organ transplant" is a kind of...):
operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "organ transplant"):
corneal graft; corneal transplant; keratoplasty (a surgical procedure in which part or all of a damaged or diseased cornea is replaced by healthy corneal tissue from a donor)
xenotransplant; xenotransplantation (a surgical procedure in which tissue or whole organs are transfered from one species to another species)
Context examples:
You often have to wait a long time for an organ transplant.
(Organ Transplantation, NIH)
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