ORGAN TRANSPLANT

Which criterion is NOT used to match an organ to a recipient?

• age
• height & weight
• current state of health
• celebrity status

What is donor ?

• A person who donate his/her organs.
• A person who takes the organ 

What is recipient?

• A person who receives the organs being transplanted.

• A person who donate his/her organs.

Which one is the below can not be translated?

• kidney
• lungs
• brain
• intestine

Tissues can be transplanted. 

• true
• false

Occurs when a person's brain activity stops permanently.

• Living Donors

• Brain Death

• Transplantation

• Allogenic

The person who donates a kidney or part of a lung or liver while they are still alive.

• Autologous

• Cornea

• Living Donor

• Brain Death

There are nearly 120,000 people on the waiting list currently.

• True
• False

Hospitals or medical centers that perform organ and/or tissue transplants

• Transplant Center

• Allocation

• Cadaveric Donors

• Procurement

Tags

NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

Transplantation between members of a different species

• Autograft

• Xenotransplant

• Allograft

• isograft