noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a donor organ
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She had to wait for over a year before a donor organ became available.
an organ donor
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There are not nearly enough organ donors.
barrel organ
digestive system/organs/juices etc
internal organs/injuries
mouth organ
organ grinder
piano/orchestral/organ/guitar etc accompaniment
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He plays folk music with guitar accompaniment.
piano/organ music
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I love listening to piano music.
pipe organ
sense organ
sex organ
vital organ
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
digestive
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This model has been used to evaluate the effects of chronic hypergastrinaemia on digestive organs , including the pancreas.
human
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The increasing demand for organ transplantation is not matched by supply of appropriate human organs.
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The air of the hospital is lukewarm, and it hums, and tastes of human organs obscurely neutralized or mistakenly preserved.
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Eight human organs were found, preserved in plastic bags.
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It includes industrial production control, analysis of high purity materials, food, human organs and biomonitoring.
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Already I believe there's a black market in human organs .
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Presumably also sperm in a sperm-bank and human organs for transplant can be stolen.
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The brain - like any other human organ - can tire.
internal
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If we look at the internal organs there is not much to distinguish a chimpanzee's heart or liver from our own.
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Without insulin, sugar lingers in the bloodstream, silently damaging the internal organs .
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These electrical pulses are then analysed and used to produce detailed pictures of a patient's internal organs .
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One wretch wishes his head returned, another even claims his internal organs .
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Segmentation is not only shown in the external differentiation of the body but also involves many of the internal organs .
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Firstly, many of the internal organs are repeated in each body segment.
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All the internal organs looked pretty normal to the naked eye.
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These two items appear simply to be ghoulish trophies, since they sit on a table with other specimens of internal organs .
major
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Macrophage: a large scavenger cell present in connective tissue and in many major organs and tissues.
male
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The male organs consist of a single continuous testis and a vas deferens terminating in an ejaculatory duct into the cloaca.
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To tame Him / Her, Dionysos steals upon the sleeping Agdisthus and ties the male organ to a tree.
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This is so even when there is no direct evidence that the male organ was seen by a witness.
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Specialized apodemes may be developed in connection with the ovipositor and the male copulatory organs .
other
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Studies of other tubular organs have shown that the major tensile stress during distension is in the circumferential direction.
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Among them was a lack of warning of the pain of inflammation in other organs .
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After the tubercle bacillus was identified, accurate diagnosis of tuberculosis, of the lungs and of other organs , became possible.
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The brain - like any other human organ - can tire.
reproductive
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No-one knows how the radiation will have damaged the reproductive organs of the children who receive continual doses.
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Similar mechanisms may account for other cancers of the reproductive organs .
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Of course, the assumption behind this is precisely that enunciated by Barnes, that woman are dominated by their reproductive organs .
various
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Its actions on various organs are the result of a combination of both direct and indirect effects.
vital
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But if tumour cells spread, a process called metastasis, they can form tumours in vital organs such as the lungs.
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I imagine bombers strafing our school, imagine myself being hit in a vital organ .
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Blood supply to the vital organs can be more accurately measured by a central venous pressure line.
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The announcer explains that by attacking the central nervous system it paralyzes the vital organs .
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The vital organs , the stomach, the intestines, the lungs and the liver, were withdrawn carefully and whole.
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In the process this helped to balance the forward weight of the rib-cage housing the creature's vital organs .
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The second bullet entered his stomach and damaged vital organs .
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Or how about a vital organ being removed and the opt-out card being found at a later date?
■ NOUN
accompaniment
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In ships at sea chaplains or commanding officers have pre-recorded tapes containing organ accompaniments and a compilation of hymns.
donation
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Now that transplant technology has improved so much, is it not time to change the system for organ donation ?
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The fact is: There is a terrible shortage of organ donations .
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In reality, there is a great shortage of donated organs , but organ donation is a careful, well-documented medical procedure.
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Will he consider a much stronger publicity campaign for organ donation ?
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Like DeWine, other lawmakers shared their personal experiences with organ donation on Tuesday.
donor
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This allowed for fairly good availability of well selected donor organs thus more easily facilitating an urgent transplant programme.
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Transplant programmes are being held back because of a shortage of donor organs , and more are urgently needed.
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Mr. Wallace Is the availability of donor organs more of a limitation on the transplant programme than the availability of resources?
grinder
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We never did see that organ grinder again and I felt sorry about what had happened.
mouth
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Adler gave the instrument dignity, inspiring composers such as Vaughan Williams and Joaquin Rodrigo to write for the humble mouth organ .
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I don't remember the clothes you wore, or your beautiful hair, or the sardines, or the mouth organ .
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It sounded like a mouth organ .
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I mean, you get people who blow a couple of bars on a mouth organ and then hold out their hands.
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The Argyll Street entrance was full of real beggars, the kind that do not even have mouth organs .
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He played first a whistle, then a mouth organ , then a trumpet.
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I gave her a ridiculously expensive mouth organ one Christmas, much like a cocktail cabinet.
music
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There were piles of bad-taste wreaths around and sickly tremolo organ music .
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The organ music was beguiling, and probably matched the gothic horror of our home.
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But the organ music was lovely, although some of the vocalists sang rather modern stuff, a bit like rock and roll.
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I felt better out here and I realized it was the absence of organ music that made the graveside ceremony less potent.
pipe
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With regard to second-hand values, a good pipe organ is a better investment than an electronic instrument.
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Calvary's pipe organs are poised to sound somber notes of mourning for Earnhardt.
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Choirs, pipe organs and the teaching of music in seminaries were all encouraged.
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In a pipe organ of quality each pipe is a carefully-designed and individually-voiced musical instrument which produces only one frequency of sound.
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It had a pipe organ installed in 1924 which cost £400.
sense
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His/her long muscular tongue lashed and probed the air like a sense organ as if to supplement his/her tiny shrunken eyes.
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The subtle energies comprising the instinctive mental patterns automatically produce a body and sense organs to match.
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Not through the medium of the brain and nervous system and the ordinary sense organs .
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No magnetic sense organ has been identified, but two hypotheses have been put forward.
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Probably not, he told himself,. there are no sense organs in the human cortex, after all.
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One is that the light-sensitive pigments of the eye could also act as magnetic sense organs .
transplant
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The five year old had a multiple organ transplant two months ago.
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These include outpatient chemotherapy, vaccines for influenza and hepatitis B and some immunosuppressant drugs for people with organ transplants .
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Doctors have been given permission to implant five mechanical hearts in patients too ill to qualify for a live organ transplant .
■ VERB
donate
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Will doctors give up trying to save me if they know I want to donate my organs ?
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In reality, there is a great shortage of donated organs , but organ donation is a careful, well-documented medical procedure.
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Despite heightened public awareness in the last decade, the need for donated organs still far exceeds the supply.
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Many are eager to donate organs to help save other lives.
play
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Both Haydn and Mozart played the organ here.
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I played the organ on Sunday at First Presbytenan and rehearsed the choir on Thursday nights.
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Use quiet music on a tape or played by the organ or music group.
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What you want to do is learn to play the organ .
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In 1787 Mozart played on the organ here.
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She explained that Gran had once been a famous singer and that she played the organ and was teaching Oliver to sing.
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He runs a church choir and plays the organ .
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He did record attending the Christmas service at St. Cleer and noted with surprise a fiddle being played in lieu of an organ .
remove
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The chosen hospital dispatches a team of doctors to remove the organ .
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Either way, the removed organs became objects of magical power.
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He appears to have removed entire systems of organs from cot death children, but most were never used in research.
wait
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Some can benefit from lung transplants, but patients often die waiting for organs .
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More than 38, 000 people are on the waiting list for organs .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
blood/sperm/organ bank
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But where had his Glover genes come from if his father was in a sperm bank ?
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Fertility clinics and sperm banks in the United States often are privately run and are subject to few government restrictions.
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In 1987, the agency had directed blood banks to similarly disqualify donors who have received pituitary-derived growth hormone.
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In person, however, they have matured about as much as a sperm in a deep frozen sperm bank .
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Still, there was always food here at the blood bank as well as plenty of sweetened fluids to quickly restore energy.
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The chief donors to sperm banks were medical students.
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The World Around Us Fascinating topics for young learners ranging from blood banks to deserts.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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organ music
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an organ transplant
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Her vital organs are intact and she has a good chance of recovery.
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internal organs
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The liver is an extremely complex organ .
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This diagram shows the position of the main organs of speech.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In contemplating the removal of an organ or organs, re-member that Nature does not indulge in luxuries.
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It is only after gastrulation that the organs, like limbs, liver, and eyes, begin to develop.
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One solution might be to use organs from other species, if the problem of rejection can be overcome.
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The organ most at risk is the brain, being enclosed within a rigid bony shell.
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The fact is: There is a terrible shortage of organ donations.
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These electrical pulses are then analysed and used to produce detailed pictures of a patient's internal organs.