suitable donor

collocation in English

meaningsofsuitableanddonor

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suitable
adjective
uk
/ˈsuː.tə.bəl/us
/ˈsuː.t̬ə.bəl/
acceptable or right for someone ...
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donor
noun[C]
uk
/ˈdəʊ.nər/us
/ˈdoʊ.nɚ/
a person who gives some of their blood or a part of their body to help someone who ...
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(Definition ofsuitableanddonorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Depending on the volume of blood collected, the calf is also transfused using blood from asuitabledonor.
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Donors normally have to be close blood relatives of the patient and only one in four patients are likely to have asuitabledonorrelative.
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Suitabledonorkidneys still are fewer than the patients who could benefit from transplants, and as a result cumulative demand for dialysis continues to grow.
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Added to this would besuitabledonororgans from patients with subarachnoid haemorrhage and cerebral tumours.
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Doctors have to be constantly in reach of the hospital because asuitabledonorcan become available at any time.
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Children with metabolic disorders are able to receive these services if clinicians agree that a bone marrow transplant is an appropriate course of treatment and asuitabledonoris available.
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A person in need can visit the website to search for asuitabledonorbased on the blood group, city/town.
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He soon finds out that his brother will need a liver donation and the former is the onlysuitabledonor.
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Oncesuitabledonororgans are present, the surgeon makes an incision starting above and finishing below the sternum, cutting all the way to the bone.
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Although several hundred persons heeded the call, it was almost a year before asuitabledonorwas found.
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Only 30 percent of patients with diseases treatable with a bone marrow transplant can find asuitabledonoramong their family members.
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Front engined rear wheel drive cars such as this are becoming rarer due to a shortage ofsuitabledonorvehicles.
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Barnard had a patient willing to undergo the procedure, but as with other surgeons, he needed asuitabledonor.
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The necessary organ is a vital one and there are no suitable donors in prospect.
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There is increasing interest in the use of reduced-intensity allogeneic stem cell transplantation, which offers the prospect of cure for selected patients with asuitabledonor.
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It is funded to undertake 20 allogeneic transplants a year using bone marrow from suitable donors.
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Finding suitable donors is a great difficulty, leading to the loss of lives at the moment, and the drugs required produce their own problems.
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We must work throughout the community to ensure that willing and suitable donors are identified, and that an approach is made to their families.
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Most donors will donate a single or double unit, however the occurrence of triples has been increasing as more suitable donors are recruited.
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