DONOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does donor mean? 

• DONOR (noun)
  The noun DONOR has 2 senses:

1. person who makes a gift of property

2. (medicine) someone who gives blood or tissue or an organ to be used in another person (the host)

  Familiarity information: DONOR used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DONOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Person who makes a gift of property

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bestower; conferrer; donor; giver; presenter

Hypernyms ("donor" is a kind of...):

benefactor; helper (a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "donor"):

abnegator (one who gives up or relinquishes or renounces something)

almsgiver (a person who gives alms)

Indian giver (an offensive term for someone who asks you to return a present he has given you)

altruist; philanthropist (someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being)

settlor; trustor ((law) a person who creates a trust by giving real or personal property in trust to a trustee for the benefit of a beneficiary; a person who gives such property is said to settle it on the trustee)

contributor; subscriber (someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money)

subsidiser; subsidizer (someone who assists or supports by giving a subsidy)

tipper (a person who leaves a tip)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(medicine) someone who gives blood or tissue or an organ to be used in another person (the host)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("donor" is a kind of...):

benefactor; helper (a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help))

Domain category:

medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "donor"):

blood donor (someone who gives blood to be used for transfusions)

organ donor (someone from whom an organ is taken for transplantation)

 Context examples 

People of all ages and background can be organ donors.

(Organ Donation, Health Resources and Services Administration)

Donor T cell therapy may help control transplant-related viral infections following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

(Allodepleted Haploidentical T Cells-expressing Inducible Caspase 9, NCI Thesaurus)

A procedure in which a person receives stem cells (cells from which all blood cells develop) from a genetically similar, but not identical, donor.

(Allogeneic bone marrow transplantation, NCI Dictionary)

The CD4+ memory Th1-like T cells are derived from precursors found in the circulation of a normal donor.

(Allogeneic CD4+ Memory Th1-like T Cells/Microparticle-bound Anti-CD3/anti-CD28, NCI Thesaurus)

A preparative treatment regimen given prior to a cell transplantation from a genetically non-identical donor.

(Allogeneic Conditioning, NCI Thesaurus)

In earlier studies, transplant recipients were found to have a mix of their own and the donor’s cells in their blood.

(Stem cell transplant reverses sickle cell disease in adults, NIH)

In the presence of electron donors, some anthrapyrazole antibiotics cause single-strand breaks in DNA via photosensitization by visible light.

(Anthrapyrazole, NCI Thesaurus)

Doctors must match donors to recipients to reduce the risk of transplant rejection.

(Organ Transplantation, NIH)

The transfer of an organ (or part of one) from one body to another, for the purpose of replacing the recipient's damaged or failing organ with a working one from the donor.

(Organ Transplantation, NCI Thesaurus)

The allogeneic EBV-specific CTLs are either harvested from a donor with an EBV-positive tumor or are donor CTLs activated against EBV-specific antigens ex vivo.

(Allogeneic Epstein-Barr Virus-Specific Cytotoxic T-Lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)