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ORGAN TRANSPLANT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 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)

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 Context examples: 

You often have to wait a long time for an organ transplant.

(Organ Transplantation, NIH)