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organ

[awr-guhn] / ˈɔr gən /


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Each year, more than 128,000 people in the United States receive solid organ or bone marrow transplants.

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026

Over the years it has also been a barbershop and the site of an organ sales and repair store.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 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

They wandered through a blood-colored room filled with old theatrical organs, huge organ pipes, and what appeared to be enormous copper brewing vats, liberated from a brewery.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman




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