donor
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3.0
- noun
- /ˈdoʊnər/
- Specialized
:
donante
- You're an organ donor.
- organ donor
- blood donor
- living donor
How could we treat kidney donors more like firefighters?
- How could we treat kidney donors more like firefighters?
- My sisters found our donor through leads from Adna Test.
- So this is coming from R slash donor conceived.
- So donor X, donor sperm, gestational carriers, donor embryos even.
- He said I'm going to be a donor.
- But my donor was a female.
- OK, so now you have a surrogate who's not the egg donor.
- Now with infertility clinics, people advertise for egg donors.
- And this particular woman wanted to get the the fecal donor.
- So the purpose of what you're talking about, essentially we think about utilizing a donor mitochondrial or donor egg.
- This is why blood donor donning is anonymous.
- Fuck the sperm donor, but what a gift that you're alive.
- And part of that is because of donor limitation.
Examples
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We're transplanting one heart from a donor into a recipient.
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The administration fought disease, becoming the largest donor to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Academic text (2011) -
Naturally, I wonder about the donor, who he is and what he looks like.
Fiction book (2001) -
Many, many people have kids through donor sperm and donor eggs.
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When a person wanted to get pregnant, they would find a sperm donor.
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Two donors were from northern Ontario, two donors were from eastern Ontario, and one donor was from another province.
Academic text (2008) -
Because there's not enough donor organs to satisfy the need of people that have transplants.
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That's psychologically beneficial for infertile couples who have resorted to using donor sperm when all else has failed.
Fiction book (2001) -
The hospital received a new heart from a donor for a patient in need of a transplant.
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Many patients rely on a donor to provide necessary organs for life-saving surgeries.
Synonyms
8
3.2
A person who gives an organ to another person
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2.5
A person who gives blood to help people in hospitals
Compounds
- Specialized
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3.8
A person with type O negative blood whose blood can be given to people of any blood type
How Generous
Surface Forms
Morphology
donor = donate (transparent) = don + or
Formed by the agentive suffix '-or' on the verb 'donate' (a person who gives); the meaning is directly predictable from the base verb.
Etymology
The word donor comes from the Latin donare, meaning 'to give', and you can see the same root in donate and donation. Think of a medical donor as someone who offers a 'gift' of blood, tissue, or an organ to help another person, which is why we use this word for that role.