deceased donor

collocation in English

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deceased
adjective
uk
/dɪˈsiːst/us
/dɪˈsiːst/
dead:
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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 ofdeceasedanddonorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In other words, to spare an already unhappy family, transplant teams will act contrary to the wishes of thedeceaseddonor.
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In one system, it is presumed that thedeceaseddonorwould have consented to the transplantation.
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For example, it is unacceptable to take a heart valve from adeceaseddonorand sell it.
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The program achieved the first kidney transplant from adeceaseddonorin the country, liver transplants from deceased donors and corneal transplantation.
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Until the routine use of medications to prevent and treat acute rejection, introduced in 1964,deceaseddonortransplantation was not performed.
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This was adeceaseddonorliver transplant.
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Fordeceaseddonortransplantation: (1) if official regulated bilateral or multilateral organ sharing programs exist between or among jurisdictions that are based on reciprocated organ-sharing programs among the jurisdictions.
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While the waiting list has risen by 60,000, the number of deceased donors has gone up by less than 1,700 - from 4,509 in 1990 to 6,182 in 2002.
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Most organs are taken from deceased donors on the grounds of prior consent (the opt-in approach) or presumed consent (the opt-out approach).
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They also help in building a healthy relationship with the medical, non-medical community and the deceased donors families.
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The transplant was coupled with a treatment of the deceased donors bone marrow cells to help prevent rejection of the new limbs.
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Such instrumentation often includes bone grafts harvested from other areas of the body or from a bone bank, where bone fragments are harvested from deceased donors.
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Complete resection of the tumor offers hope of long-term survival, and of late there has been renewed interest in liver transplantation from deceased donors along with adjuvant therapy.
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