| 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 |
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 |
humor humour sense of humor
sense of humour | the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous, she didn't appreciate my humor, you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor |
purposefulness
sense of purpose | the quality of having a definite purpose |
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 |
common sense
good sense
gumption
horse sense
sense mother wit | sound practical judgment, Common sense is not so common, he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples, fortunately she had the good sense to run away |
| road sense | good judgment in avoiding trouble or accidents on the road |
sense sensation sentience
sentiency
sensory faculty | the faculty through which the external world is apprehended, in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing |
modality
sense modality
sensory system | a particular sense |
sight
vision visual sense
visual modality | the ability to see, the visual faculty |
touch sense of touch
skin senses
touch modality
cutaneous senses | the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands), only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us |
hearing
audition
auditory sense
sense of hearing
auditory modality | the ability to hear, the auditory faculty, his hearing was impaired |
taste gustation
sense of taste
gustatory modality | the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth, his cold deprived him of his sense of taste |
smell sense of smell
olfaction
olfactory modality | the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents |
kinesthesis
kinaesthesis
kinesthesia kinaesthesia kinesthetics
muscle sense
sense of movement | the ability to feel movements of the limbs and body |
equilibrium
labyrinthine sense
vestibular sense
sense of balance
sense of equilibrium | a sensory system located in structures of the inner ear that registers the orientation of the head |