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organ

[awr-guhn] / ˈɔr gən /


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The family are now urging parents to consider organ donation should they lose a child and thanked the hospital staff and others who have supported them.

From BBC Aug. 22, 2026

In my hometown, Seattle, our Paramount Theatre hosts Silent Movie Mondays quarterly, accompanying each screening with a live performance on the venue’s original Mighty Wurlitzer organ.

From Salon Aug. 22, 2026

Muscle is also an organ in its own right.

From Science Daily Aug. 10, 2026

This “crystal-like organ of extraordinary potency,” Rudhyar imagines, has thousands of knobs, each one “tuned to the fundamental tone of a star.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

At the time, the heart was thought to be a sideshow, a second-rate organ.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

A new analysis of biological aging across the human body suggests that both sleeping too little and sleeping too much are associated with faster aging in the brain, heart, lungs, immune system, and other organs.

From Science Daily Aug. 24, 2026

She describes it as if "heated barbed wire" were wrapped around her abdomen: "It's like my organs are being pulled apart."

From BBC Aug. 23, 2026

When delivered along with pembrolizumab, an immunotherapy drug and the current standard of care, intismeran autogene prevented melanoma recurrence and prevented the cancer from spreading to other organs, the companies said in a statement.

From Barron's Aug. 19, 2026

The study also met a secondary goal of preventing the disease from spreading to different organs.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

Ed Lewis’s discovery of master-regulatory genes that controlled the development of segments, organs, and structures solved the problem of the final stage of embryogenesis, but it raised a seemingly infinite recursive conundrum.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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