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organ

[awr-guhn] / ˈɔr gən /


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His mother, Suzanne Sheik, told the New York Times that her son died of organ failure.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2026

The team also found that aging did not appear to affect every organ system in the same way.

From Science Daily Sep. 14, 2026

"Runner," an action comedy led by Alan Ritchson and Owen Wilson, debuted in fourth place, with the heroes fighting a cartel to get a sick young girl a lifesaving organ transplant.

From Barron's Sep. 13, 2026

The embryo grows until it causes the organ to rupture, triggering catastrophic bleeding.

From Salon Sep. 13, 2026

The great golden organ was one that Mozart had played, and some of its notes seemed to come from heaven itself.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

That distribution could suggest that such organs first evolved in specific localized areas before becoming more widespread across the skin in later crocodylomorph lineages.

From Science Daily Sep. 15, 2026

The other was organ-specific aging, which estimates how rapidly individual organs or biological systems are aging.

From Science Daily Sep. 14, 2026

That leaves a major gap between the number of patients who could benefit from a new heart and the number of donor organs available.

From Science Daily Sep. 11, 2026

Whereas chronological age measures years, biological age assesses the health of cells and organs to predict lifespan and risk of disease.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 7, 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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