ORGAN TRANSPLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does organ transplant mean? 

• ORGAN TRANSPLANT (noun)
  The noun ORGAN TRANSPLANT has 1 sense:

1. an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient)

  Familiarity information: ORGAN TRANSPLANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORGAN TRANSPLANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

organ transplant; transplant; transplantation

Context example:

a child had a multiple organ transplant two months ago

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 may need an organ transplant if one of your organs has failed.

(Organ Transplantation, NIH)

Human lymphocyte antigen tests are done before a donor stem cell or organ transplant, to find out if tissues match between the donor and the person receiving the transplant.

(Human lymphocyte antigen, NCI Dictionary)

Human leukocyte antigen tests are done before a donor stem cell or organ transplant, to find out if tissues match between the donor and the person receiving the transplant.

(Human leukocyte antigen, NCI Dictionary)

HLA tests are done before a donor stem cell or organ transplant, to find out if tissues match between the donor and the person receiving the transplant.

(HLA, NCI Dictionary)

Immunosuppressants may be used to keep a person from rejecting a bone marrow or organ transplant.

(Immunosuppressant, NCI Dictionary)

Human leukocyte antigen matching is done before a donor stem cell or organ transplant to find out if tissues match between the donor and the person receiving the transplant.

(Human leukocyte antigen matching, NCI Dictionary)

In medicine, a person who gives blood, cells, tissue, or an organ for use in another person, such as in a blood transfusion or an organ transplant.

(Donor, NCI Dictionary)

HLA matching is done before a donor stem cell or organ transplant to find out if tissues match between the donor and the person receiving the transplant.

(HLA matching, NCI Dictionary)

Human herpesvirus 5 is found in humans and causes mononucleosis-like symptoms in healthy individuals and pneumonia, hepatitis, encephalitis, myelitis, colitis, retinitis, neuropathy, mucoepidermoid carcinoma as well as other malignancies in immunocompromised persons, organ transplant recipients and newborn infants.

(Human Herpesvirus 5, NCI Thesaurus)

When you have an organ transplant, doctors remove an organ from another person and place it in your body.

(Organ Transplantation, NIH)