| transplant transplantation organ transplant | an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient), he had a kidney transplant, the long-term results of cardiac transplantation are now excellent, a child had a multiple organ transplant two months ago |
function
office part role | the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group, the function of a teacher, the government must do its part, play its role |
lateral line
lateral line organ | sense organs of fish and amphibians, believed to detect pressure changes in the water |
| American organ | a freeeed instrument in which air is drawn in through reeds by suction bellows |
barrel organ
grind organ
hand organ
hurdy gurdy
hurdy-gurdy
street organ | a musical instrument that makes music by rotation of a cylinder studded with pegs |
calliope
steam organ | a musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles played from a keyboard |
electric organ
electronic organ
Hammond organ
organ | (music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ |
harmonica
mouth organ
harp mouth harp | a small rectangular freeeed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole |
harmonium
organ reed organ | a freeeed instrument in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows |
organ
pipe organ | wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard |
| organ loft | a gallery occupied by a church organ |
organ pipe
pipe pipework | the flues and stops on a pipe organ |
| organ stop | a graduated set of organ pipes of like tone quality |
function
purpose
role
use | what something is used for, the function of an auger is to bore holes, ballet is beautiful but what use is it? |
contractile organ
contractor | a bodily organ that contracts |
| organ | a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function |
vital organ
vitals | a bodily organ that is essential for life |
| external organ | an organ that is situated on or near the surface of the body |
internal organ
viscus | a main organ that is situated inside the body |
sense organ
sensory receptor
receptor | an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation |
tastebud
taste bud
gustatory organ | an oval sensory end organ on the surface of the tongue |
speech organ
vocal organ
organ of speech | any of the organs involved in speech production |
| organ of hearing | the part of the ear that is responsible for sensations of sound |
| organ of Corti | the hearing organ of the inner ear, contains receptors that respond to sound waves |
gland
secretory organ
secretor
secreter | any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream |
excretory organ
urinary organ | an organ that separates waste substances from the blood and discharges them |
organelle
cell organelle
cell organ | a specialized part of a cell, analogous to an organ, the first organelle to be identified was the nucleus |
| end organ | a specialized structure at the peripheral end of some motor or sensory nerve fibers |
reproductive organ
sex organ | any organ involved in sexual reproduction |
genitalia
genital organ
genitals
private parts
privates
crotch | external sex organ |
female genitalia
female genitals
female genital organ
fanny | external female sex organs, in England `fanny' is vulgar slang for female genitals |
| female internal reproductive organ | the reproductive organs of a woman |
male genitalia
male genitals
male genital organ
family jewels | external male sex organs |
| male internal reproductive organ | the reproductive organs of a man |
| target organ | (radiology) organ intended to receive the therapeutic dose of a radioactive substance |
| taret organ | (endocrinology) organ most affected by a particular hormone |
| erectile organ | an organ containing erectile tissue |
| respiratory organ | any organ involved in the process of respiration |
nose
olfactory organ | the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract, the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals, he has a cold in the nose |
localization of function
localisation of function
localization principle
localisation principle
localization
localisation | (physiology) the principle that specific functions have relatively circumscribed locations in some particular part or organ of the body |
derived function
derivative
differential coefficient
differential
first derivative | the result of mathematical differentiation, the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another, df(x)
dx |
| vital statistics | data relating to births and deaths and health and diseases and marriages |
| sentential function | formal expression containing variables, becomes a sentence when variables are replaced by constants |
function word
closedlass word | a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning |
routine
subroutine
subprogram
procedure
function | a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program |
| function call | a call that passes control to a subroutine, after the subroutine is executed control returns to the next instruction in main program |
| organ | a periodical that is published by a special interest group, the organ of the communist party |
| house organ | a periodical published by a business firm for its employees and customers |
characteristic curve
characterisic function | (electronics) graph showing how a particular characteristic of a device varies with other parameters |
affair
occasion social occasion
function
social function | a vaguely specified social event, the party was quite an affair, an occasion arranged to honor the president, a seemingly endless round of social functions |