organ
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The company started in 1959 as a Hollywood organ shop, pivoting to guitars and amps as Beatlemania swept the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
His team-mates and opponents were, like him, all recipients of a donor organ.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
"Having the brain as one organ would probably be more efficient, but we rely on this primordial way to make the brain as two separate pieces."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
His mother, Suzanne Sheik, told the New York Times that her son died of organ failure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
The old organ had collapsed a few years back, so Mrs. Milton had to pound out hymns on an out-of-tune piano.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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However, it added that fewer families had consented for their loved ones' organs to be donated, and there had been a reduction in the number of eligible donors.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Tissues such as skin, along with the epithelial layers that cover and line many organs, have a remarkable ability to rebuild themselves after extensive damage.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
That distribution could suggest that such organs first evolved in specific localized areas before becoming more widespread across the skin in later crocodylomorph lineages.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
The defective hemoglobin sticks to itself, causing normally flexible cells to stiffen into sickle shapes—a process sometimes called sickling—that block blood flow, damage organs and trigger excruciating pain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
They poked and prodded my body to try to find out if all my internal organs were where they should be.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
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