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organ

[awr-guhn] / ˈɔr gən /


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The hospital "bends over backwards to make transplants happen to ensure that we say yes to every good donor organ", Papworth's clinical lead, Dr Steve Pettit, told File on Four Investigates.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

What in fact kills patients is the ferocious overreaction of their immune systems, which cause widespread blood clotting and organ failure.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

By that time, she was in septic shock with multiple organ failure.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

In a separate study that also included Burkhardt, scientists reconstructed the full neural wiring of the comb jelly's gravity sensing organ.

From Science Daily • Mar. 6, 2026

At a certain point in the service I would play the organ before the choir began to sing.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson