to harvest
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7.7
- verb
- /ˈhɑrvɪst/
- Specialized
:
extraer
- They kept him alive to harvest his organs for transplantation after his brain death.
- harvest stem cells
- harvest organs
- harvest tissue
Yes, yes, yes, yes, got to harvest those organs.
- Yes, yes, yes, yes, got to harvest those organs.
- And a lot of organ harvesting, they buy us for our organs.
- But one of the most sick examples of this is organ harvesting in Chinese prisons.
- The Costa Rican organ harvesting ring down in Costa Rica with the Israeli Dr.
- Countless women and children have been taken away for sex slavery, domestic servitude, organ harvesting.
- It comes from like cadaver or some sort of the proceeds of some kind of surgery where they harvest the skin.
- Some of you may have had your stem cells harvested from your fat and injected in a joint or shoulder.
- So more than half of that harvested nucleus shows evidence of an overload and compression.
- Cairo, as we know, historically has been a big freaking is known to be the the capital of the organ harvesting.
Examples
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And in a bone marrow transplant, this tissue is harvested from a donor.
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Phase two, introduction of new DNA, harvested from healthy donors.
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We harvest the heart, bring it back in an ice bucket.
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They kept him alive for two extra days to harvest his organs.
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You have to obtain and harvest human embryos to get these human stem cell lines.
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I'm having my eggs harvested.
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Some of you may have had your stem cells harvested from your fat and injected in a joint or shoulder.
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Jan received a kidney from an accident victim, one of two kidneys harvested from the same cadaver.
Fiction book (1996) -
Stem cells harvested from female humans and other animals tend to be hardier and more potent than stem cells from males.
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His winter-run chinooks had probably been harvested by Native Americans using gill nets.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
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8.5
To remove a device, organ, or tissue from a body for study
Idioms
Compounds
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4.7
A full moon that comes soon after the start of autumn and gives extra light for farmers
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3.3
A community celebration that marks the end of the harvest with food and music
- Archaic
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7.2
A festival at the end of the farming year when people gather to celebrate crops
A small gray mouse in North and Central America that lives in grain fields and tall grass
How Invasive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Harvest in medicine borrows the same picture of gathering: doctors 'harvest' organs, tissue, or cells by taking them for transplant or research, much like picking ripe fruit. So medical harvest means collecting biological material for use.