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Transplant
Transplant or Transplants may refer to:
• Organ transplant, moving an organ from one body to another
• Transplanting a plant from one location to another
• A transplant experiment, a type of experiment where an organism is moved from one location to another
• Transplants, an American band, or their self-titled album.
Organ transplant
An organ transplant is the moving of a whole or partial organ from one body to another (or from a donor site on the patient's own body), for the purpose of replacing the recipient's damaged or failing organ with a working one from the donor site. Organ donors can be living or deceased (previously referred to as cadaveric).
Organs that can be transplanted are the heart, kidneys, liver, lungs, pancreas, penis and intestine. Tissues include bones, tendons, cornea, heart valves, veins, and skin.
Contents
• 1 Types of transplants
o 1.1 Autograft
o 1.2 Allograft
 1.2.1 Isograft
o 1.3 Xenograft and......

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