organ failure
collocation in Englishmeaningsoforganandfailure
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organ
noun
uk/ˈɔː.ɡən/us/ˈɔːr.ɡən/
a part of the body of an animal or plant that performs a ...
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failure
noun
uk/ˈfeɪ.ljər/us/ˈfeɪ.ljɚ/
the fact of someone or something ...
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(Definition oforganandfailurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The survivors had only oneorganfailurebeside the lung.
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Both patients had severe illness with diagnoses of lung cancer0hepatoma and multipleorganfailure.
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Presumably not, so our causing theorganfailuredoes not seem to play the inhibiting moral role that he thinks it does.
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Since the late 1950s, transplantation of solid organs has become an increasingly successful therapy for patients suffering from end-stageorganfailure.
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One child died from multipleorganfailure5 days after unsuccessful surgical then balloon angioplasty.
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At one end of this polarized process is the patient withorganfailurewho is dying in a critical care unit.
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This disease causes multipleorganfailureand is associated with a high mortality.
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Other complications were hemorrhagic episodes (4), cardiac stun (13), multipleorganfailure(4).
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For people with other types oforganfailure, transplantation offers the only hope for long-term survival.
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We investigated pulmonary and hemodynamic values such as ventilator support, grading oforganfailure, signs of sepsis and management of nutrition.
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In the second case, we will in addition cause five healthy people to sufferorganfailure.
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Causes of death were myocardial failure (5 patients), and sepsis with multipleorganfailureon the twentieth postoperative day (1 patient).
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