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Definition of Donor

1. Noun. Person who makes a gift of property.

2. Noun. (medicine) someone who gives blood or tissue or an organ to be used in another person (the host).

Definition of Donor

1. n. One who gives or bestows; one who confers anything gratuitously; a benefactor.

Definition of Donor

1. Noun. One who donates, typically, money. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Donor

1. one that donates [n -S] - See also: donates

Medical Definition of Donor

1. An individual organism that supplies living tissue to be used in another body, as a person who furnished blood for transfusion or an organ for transplantation in a histocompatible recipient. (15 Nov 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Donor

donnicker donnickers donniker donnikers donning donnish donnishly donnishness donnishnesses donnism

donnisms donnot donnots donnybrook donnybrooks donor (current term) donor card donor splice junction donorcycle donorcycles

donors donorship donorships donour donours donpeacorite dons donship

Literary usage of Donor

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"of both donor and recipient nodal tissue. A 50-year-old male patient was studied ... For the donor heart, five intervals between P waves (PP intervals) from ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"And when such condition involves a possible revocation of the gift by the donor In his lifetime, on his death without having exercised such power, ..."

3. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, George Sharswood, Barron Field (1908)
"To enable the tenant to aliene the land, and thereby to bar not only his own issue, but also the donor of his interest in the reversion.(gr) 2. ..."

4. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1873)
"By Edward Jarvis, Mn donor the author. ' Tables for Travellers. ... donor the author. ' Observations on Base Length of Great Pyramid and Royal ..."

5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1872)
"donor the author. 'Address to Geographical Section of the British Association, ... donor the author. 'The Book of Ser Marco Polo the Venetian.' By Col. ..."

6. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1871)
"donor the author. ' Guide to the Islands of the North Pacific, 1870. ... donor J. Imray, Esq. ' Lights and Tides of the World.' 1869. ..."

7. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"[Ill] In all purely voluntary conveyances it is the fraudulent intent of the" donor which vitiates. If actually insolvent, he is held to knowledge of his ..."

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