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What is the definition or description of: organ transplant?
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Transferring Organs: In practical terms it means removing an organ (kidney, heart, lung, liver, pancreas, intestine, etc.) from someone from the same species (allotransplant) and placing it in another individual of that species.
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Removal: Of an organ from a cadaver and implantation into another person.
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