organ transplant

Questions about organ transplant

What does organ transplant mean?

organ transplant means "an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient)".

What is another word for organ transplant?

Close synonyms include transplant, transplantation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is organ transplant a common word?

organ transplant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.