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Definitions of donor
  1. noun
    person who makes a gift of property
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  2. noun
    (medicine) someone who gives blood or tissue or an organ to be used in another person (the host)
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  • host (medicine) recipient of transplanted tissue or organ from a donor
  • transplant place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient
  • transplant (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
  • transplant an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient)
  • graft place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient
  • graft (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
  • transplantation an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient)
  • allograft tissue or organ transplanted from a donor of the same species but different genetic makeup; recipient's immune system must be suppressed to prevent rejection of the graft
  • disinheritance the act by a donor that terminates the right of a person to inherit
  • pheresis a procedure in which blood is drawn and separated into its components by dialysis; some are retained and the rest are returned to the donor by transfusion
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