ORGAN DONOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does organ donor mean? 

• ORGAN DONOR (noun)
  The noun ORGAN DONOR has 1 sense:

1. someone from whom an organ is taken for transplantation

  Familiarity information: ORGAN DONOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORGAN DONOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone from whom an organ is taken for transplantation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

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

 Context examples 

Islet cell transplantation transfers cells from an organ donor into the body of another person.

(Islet Cell Transplantation, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)