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Surgical Procedures, Operative > Transplantation > Organ Transplantation

Preferred term

Organ Transplantation  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Grafting, Organ
  • Graftings, Organ
  • Organ Grafting
  • Organ Graftings
  • Organ Transplantations
  • Transplantation, Organ
  • Transplantations, Organ

Note

  • general or unspecified only: prefer / transpl with organs (Manual 19.7+, 19.8.75) but many specific precoordinated organ/transplantation terms are available; available also are several types of technical transpl terms (TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS, TRANSPLANTATION HOMOLOGOUS, etc.); immunology of organ transplantation = TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY

Scope note

  • Transference of an organ between individuals of the same species or between individuals of different species.

History note

  • 91

In other languages

  • elimensiirto

    Finnish

  • elimen transplantaatio
  • elimen transplantaatiot
  • elimensiirrot
  • elinsiirrot
  • elinsiirto
  • elintensiirrot
  • elintensiirto
  • Organtransplantation

    Swedish

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D016377

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