Definitions for organ transplantation
or·gan trans·plan·ta·tion

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1. Organ transplantation

   Organ transplantation is a medical procedure in which an organ is removed from one body and placed in the body of a recipient, to replace a damaged or missing organ. The donor and recipient may be at the same location, or organs may be transported from a donor site to another location. Organs and/or tissues that are transplanted within the same person's body are called autografts. Transplants that are recently performed between two subjects of the same species are called allografts. Allografts can either be from a living or cadaveric source. Organs that have been successfully transplanted include the heart, kidneys, liver, lungs, pancreas, intestine, thymus and uterus. Tissues include bones, tendons (both referred to as musculoskeletal grafts), corneae, skin, heart valves, nerves and veins. Worldwide, the kidneys are the most commonly transplanted organs, followed by the liver and then the heart. Corneae and musculoskeletal grafts are the most commonly transplanted tissues; these outnumber organ transplants by more than tenfold. Organ donors may be living, brain dead, or dead via circulatory death. Tissue may be recovered from donors who die of circulatory death, as well as of brain death – up to 24 hours past the cessation of heartbeat. Unlike organs, most tissues (with the exception of corneas) can be preserved and stored for up to five years, meaning they can be "banked". Transplantation raises a number of bioethical issues, including the definition of death, when and how consent should be given for an organ to be transplanted, and payment for organs for transplantation. Other ethical issues include transplantation tourism (medical tourism) and more broadly the socio-economic context in which organ procurement or transplantation may occur. A particular problem is organ trafficking. There is also the ethical issue of not holding out false hope to patients.Transplantation medicine is one of the most challenging and complex areas of modern medicine. Some of the key areas for medical management are the problems of transplant rejection, during which the body has an immune response to the transplanted organ, possibly leading to transplant failure and the need to immediately remove the organ from the recipient. When possible, transplant rejection can be reduced through serotyping to determine the most appropriate donor-recipient match and through the use of immunosuppressant drugs.

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1. Organ Transplantation

   Transference of an organ between individuals of the same species or between individuals of different species.

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1. organ transplantation

   The moving of an organ from one body to another; or from a donor site to another location on the patient's own body, for the purpose of replacing the recipient's damaged or absent organ.

   An organ transplantation was needed due to his damaged liver.

   
   

   Submitted by anonymous on March 8, 2016  

How to pronounce organ transplantation?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of organ transplantation in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of organ transplantation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of organ transplantation in a Sentence

1. Frederike Bemelman:

   The advantages of organ transplantation far outweigh these small risks, people should not be worried.

2. Dorry Segev:

   Organ transplantation is actually even more important for patients with HIV, since they die on the waiting list even faster than their HIV-negative counterparts, we are very thankful to ... use organs from HIV-positive patients to save lives, instead of throwing them away, as we had to do for so many years.

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_Transplantation