Word Finder - donor

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One who makes a donation.

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The charity raised $2,000 from various donors.

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A group or molecule that donates either a radical, electrons or a moiety in a chemical reaction. Compare acceptor.

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a carbonyl donor molecule

It takes its name from its donor, the friend of Emerson.

The medics were talking about looking in his pockets for an organ donor card.

In connexion with the public elementary schools throughout Canada, where the principles of agriculture are taught to some extent, manual training centres, provided out of funds supplied by the same public-spirited donor, are now maintained by local and provincial public school authorities.

In 1509 followed the "Assumption of the Virgin" with the Apostles gathered about her tomb, a rich altarpiece with figures of saints and portraits of the donor and his wife in the folding wings, executed for Jacob Heller, a merchant of Frankfort, in 1509.

It followed of course that the heir had no right in the land which his father held in this way, nor was the heir of the donor bound by his father's act.

By keeping these distinctions in view, the right of patronage in the case of secular benefices becomes intelligible, being in fact the right, which was originally vested in the donor of the temporalities, to present to the bishop a clerk to be admitted, if found fit by the bishop, to the office to which those temporalities are annexed.

The battle is chiefly notable for the steadi- donor, ness with which the allied right, covered by the Light Division in squares, changed position in presence of the French cavalry; and for the extraordinary feat of arms of Captain Norman Ramsay, R.H.A., in charging through the French cavalry with his guns.

Dad is a donor.

Both pillars and cross-bars were elaborately carved in bas-relief, and most of them bore inscriptions giving either the name of the donor, or the subject of the bas-relief, or both.

James Lick (1796-1876), a cold man with few friends, who gave a great fortune to noble ends; and Adolph Sutro (1830-1898), famous for executing the Sutro Tunnel of the Comstock mines of Virginia City, Nevada, and the donor of various gifts to the city.

In 1967, the Red Cross created a Rare Blood Donor Registry.

The granter retains an interest in the land similar to that of the donor of an estate for life, to whom the land reverts after the life estate is ended.

What does it mean to be a donor offspring?

Such a reaction can make locating appropriately matched donor blood more difficult.

Bone marrow transplantation-A medical procedure in which a quantity of bone marrow is extracted through a needle from a donor, and then passed into a patient to replace the patient's diseased or absent bone marrow.

In either case, they now have access to the donor's financial information - which can potentially lead to identity theft.

Elder Park (40 acres) presented to the burgh in 1885 contains a statue of John Elder (1824-1869), the pioneer shipbuilder, the husband of the donor.

Six miles farther out on Woodward Avenue is Palmer Park of about 140 acres, given to the city in 1894 and named in honour of the donor.

Being on the same floor as donor recruitment also ensures that the agents are always abreast of marketing activity.

Like water and the amide bond in peptides, the imidazole ring can act as both a hydrogen bond acceptor and donor.

However, some hydrocolloids now contain an alginate, for example Comfeel Plus, making these more appropriate for small donor sites.

He is in the position of a sperm donor who has not been guaranteed anonymity in law!

A national register for hazards of donor apheresis is being maintained for statistical purposes by the Central Collator.

The pair cannot be named to protect their children, born after the woman underwent artificial insemination from a donor.

When the donor becomes mentally incapable, the attorney cannot just go ahead and act on the donor's behalf.

The donor might be a manorial lord or wealthy burgess.

Additionally, in relapse complete donor T-cell chimerism was seen.

It is replaced by clear cornea removed in the same manner from the donor eye.

The recipient's immune system must overcome the factors involved in immune privilege to reject the donor cornea.

Man survives glider crash Organ donor campaign launched A campaign to get more people on the national Organ Donor Register has been launched.

In people without an HLA-identical sibling but with an alternative donor, this type of transplant was rated appropriate in those with unfavorable cytogenetics.

In such cases, plaques will accompany the planting or installation in honor of the donor's designee.

Damned by donor diktat, for Ghanaians it's a raw deal.

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Four patients had allogeneic stem cell transplants, 3 from siblings and 1 from a matched unrelated donor.

Would I be able to use the same anonymous donor again?

A blood stem cell donor whose tissue type matches theirs could mean the difference between life & death.

It also plans to monitor the impact on treatment services with donor gametes in clinics around the country.

In 2005, the guidance was simplified to allow 10 families to be created from any one donor's gametes.

The wounds that are seen in plastic surgery are flaps, skin grafts and split thickness graft donor sites.

The specificity of the antibodies will be determined by panel studies with HLA typed donor lymphocytes and HNA typed donor granulocytes.

Investigations The serum will be investigated by the indirect granulocyte immunofluorescence and chemiluminescence tests using donor granulocytes typed for HNA-1, -2 and -3.

Do attorneys have to supply evidence of the donor's mental incapacity?

Donor lymphocyte infusion induced GVHD in nine of 23 patients.

If any evidence of the donor's or testator's intention does exist, the charity must treat the gift or legacy accordingly.

Since there is no need for laboratory investigations such as typing and crossmatching, autologous blood is more quickly reinfused than donor blood.

Each islet cell transplantation needs, on average, islets from two donor pancreases for the transplantation to be successful.

One of the reasons why live donor kidney transplantation is so successful is because the CIT is only one to two hours long.

Graft Versus Host A term used in donor bone marrow transplant.

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