someone who gives blood to be used for transfusions
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Organ donor
someone from whom an organ is taken for transplantation
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(medicine) someone who gives blood or tissue or an organ to be used in another person (the host)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine, Word origins, Borrowing and loanwords.(medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.(medicine) the process of removing a heavy metal from the bloodstream by means of a chelate as in treating lead or mercury poisoning
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.(veterinary medicine) infestation with coccidia
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.(medicine) a curving or bending; often abnormal; "curvature of the spine"
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.(medicine) any disturbance in the functioning of an organ or body part or a disturbance in the functioning of a social group; "erectil…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.(medicine) any disturbance in the functioning of an organ or body part or a disturbance in the functioning of a social group; "erectil…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.(medicine) a procedure adopted to meet an emergency (especially a medical emergency)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.(medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.(medicine) the theory that all contagious diseases are caused by microorganisms
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.(medicine) the practice of medicine by a group of physicians who share their premises and other resources
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.(medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which they are immune but who can pass it on to others
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.(medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.(medicine) radioactive waste consisting of objects that have been briefly exposed to radioactivity (as in certain medical tests)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.(medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.(medicine) a small hammer with a rubber head used in percussive examinations of the chest and in testing reflexes
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.(medicine) a small hammer with a rubber head used in percussive examinations of the chest and in testing reflexes
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A suffix used, chiefly in law terms, in a passive signification, to indicate the direct or indirect object of an action, or the one to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: whom, organ, taken, transplantation.One to whom anything is allotted; one to whom an allotment is made.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: whom, organ, taken, transplantation.An organ which is equivalent in its functions to a different organ in another species or group, or even in the same group; as, the gil…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: whom, organ, taken, transplantation.A subordinate or subsidiary part or organ; an external organ or limb, esp. of the articulates.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: whom, organ, taken, transplantation.In England, an ecclesiastical dignitary, next in rank below a bishop, whom he assists, and by whom he is appointed, though with indepe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: whom, organ, taken, transplantation.(law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g., someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: whom, organ, taken, transplantation.A writ which lies for a party against whom judgment is recovered, but to whom good matter of discharge has subsequently accrued which…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: whom, organ, taken, transplantation.That part of an organ by which it is attached to another more central organ.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: whom, organ, taken, transplantation.nuclear transplantation of a patient's own cells to make an oocyte from which immune-compatible cells (especially stem cells) can be d…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: whom, organ, taken, transplantation.A physiological organ; a living organ; an organ endowed with function; -- distinguished from idorgan.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: whom, organ, taken, transplantation.A membranous sac containing fluid, or investing an organ or joint; as, the capsule of the lens of the eye. Also, a capsulelike organ.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: whom, organ, taken, transplantation.Of or pertaining to the white races of mankind, of whom the people about Mount Caucasus were formerly taken as the type.
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