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organ

[awr-guhn] / ˈɔr gən /


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In contrast, only 15 percent know that brain donation is not included when signing up as an organ donor.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2026

Strengthening these muscles helps prevent incontinence and organ prolapse.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

Viet Nam News reported that organ donations had been made to "five critically ill Vietnamese patients" at the hospital.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

The original sense of “bottom” survives in many words related to “fund,” including foundation, fundamental, profound and the medical term fundus, the area of a hollow organ that is farthest away from the organ’s opening.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

I had a headache—not an ache in my brain but an actual aching of my brain, as if the organ itself was tender.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover