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Main Entry:	organ [awr-guhn] Show IPA/ˈɔrgən/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	means, tool
Synonyms:	agency, agent, channel, device, element, forum, implement, instrument, journal, magazine, medium, member, ministry, mouthpiece, newspaper, paper, part, periodical, process, publication, review, structure, unit, vehicle, voice, way

Main Entry:	agent
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	power, instrument for achievement
Synonyms:	cause, channel, factor, force, means, medium, organ, power, vehicle

Main Entry:	channel
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	means
Synonyms:	agency, agent, approach, avenue, course, instrument, instrumentality, instrumentation, medium, ministry, organ, route, vehicle, way

Example Sentences

In this lesson, students solve a riddle about the appendix and learn about the paradox surrounding this organ.

Preclinical training has taken a significant step forward with the new organ based system curriculum.

Yet for the best of author's knowledge, male organ has not been touched in the growth literature before.

In this lesson, students solve a riddle about the appendix and learn about the paradox surrounding this organ.

Preclinical training has taken a significant step forward with the new organ based system curriculum.

Yet for the best of author's knowledge, male organ has not been touched in the growth literature before.

Millions of receptors in the nose's smelling organ aren't scattered at random, a new study says.

There are several important differences between blood transfusions and organ transplants.

Capuchin monkeys, those adorable organ grinders, eat owl monkeys and so on.

The accusations set off one of the widest police investigations yet into illegal organ sales.

For concertgoers who are used to watching performers make music, organ recitals can be peculiar events.

There's a lot of potential to use a profile as a publicity organ.

The human brain is an impressive and dexterous organ.

When the tissues had matured, the organ was implanted into the patient.

Tissue engineering has the potential to redefine tissue and organ repair and replacement.

Birds, on the other hand, vocalize through an organ in their throat called the syrinx.

But some of them are also working out until they puke, faint or suffer permanent organ damage.

Transplant rejection is a process in which a transplant recipient's immune system attacks the transplanted organ or tissue.

But the organ would probably cost several million dollars to rehabilitate, and the university has remained noncommittal.

If the blood vessels of any organ-including the hippocampus-are reduced, that organ begins to atrophy.

The process is similar to the development of the lateral line, a sensory organ in fish.

To change their buoyancy and move up and down in the water, fish inflate an internal organ called the swim bladder.

The prey became the mitochondrion, the cellular organ that produces energy.

In fact, the calliope is occasionally referred to as the steam piano or steam organ.

If not stopped in time, with a booster shot of drugs, the destruction succeeds and the organ is rejected.

Scientists are probing beneath the surface of the body's largest organ.

In places where there have been prolonged heat exposures, there is probably a broad impact on many organ systems.

Then again, she's not too fond of eating organ meat.

It's not true that gullible fools are lured to parties, then drugged and robbed of their kidneys by organ thieves.

There is a reason for this: the brain is a complex organ and the causes of its disorders remain poorly understood.

Currently doctors only have hours to get a donated organ into a living patient before the organ becomes too damaged.

But it seems only fair to dedicate a few songs to the organ that makes music possible: the brain.

Instead, the organ is really a concretion formed when sand was washed inside the body and became cemented into place.

The brain is our body's natural multi-system parallel processing organ.

Grey matter gets picked away at different rates in different parts of the organ.

Scientists believe the struggling prey ruptured an organ of its captor as it was swallowed, killing the larger fish.

During the breeding season the organ becomes enlarged as it inflates and fills with blood.

Frost's pedal organ has been repaired and remains in the farmhouse.

One remains a stem cell while the other multiplies into the sorts of cells required by its organ.

Taken together, these changes make the entire brain a much faster and more sophisticated organ.

Manipulations of these cells could offer new treatments for conditions ranging from diabetes to organ rejection.

If this pruning cannot take place, the organ becomes less and less efficient, and dire consequences result.

It's a major organ of the body, a map of early human migration, a canvas for cultural markings.

There's a difference between a biopsy on an organ with tumor or a cancer and a biopsy on an organ not so.

Under-immunosuppression can lead to organ rejection, which is almost always treatable.

The cerebral cortex is the structure that gives the organ its convoluted surface.

No organ in the human body is as resistant to study as the brain.

The arteries branch out at the brain, carrying blood over and through the organ.

Thus a music-lover in search of organ music as an artistic experience must usually seek it.

Finding suggests that embryonic stem cell therapy could encounter the same problems organ transplants do.

Coelacanths have a hinged skull and an electrosensory organ unknown in other living fish.

No one so young had ever survived an organ transplant before.

Some structural problems can impact psychological and emotional health due to restricted breathing or organ function.

The primary cause of organ transplant failure is rejection of the graft organ by the host.

From this he inferred that an organ of verbal memory must lie behind the.

Unfounded fears about the organ donation process have stopped many people from signing organ donor cards, a new survey shows.

Financial incentives may be needed to help secure enough organ donations, as altruism alone is not working.

All her organ systems were fully functional on their own.

Finally, they would simply inject the new cells into the organ that needs them.

The hope is to direct this development so they can be used for tissue and even organ transplants.

Over the last five decades, surgeons have learned how to transplant virtually every vital organ in the human body.

While the organ known as the brain might not itself be the seat of consciousness, the body as a whole rather.

Hence the idea of doing running repairs on a patient's existing organ.

Evidence of bleeding follows, leading to organ failure, shock and often death.

On features a heart motif stamped on the outside, presumably reminding you which vital organ you should be aiming for.

The organ is a complex machine that in its earliest days was considered a marvel of engineering.

Your body's largest organ is what holds you together-your skin.

The skin is the body's largest organ and its shield against the surrounding environment.

These bacteria can be thought of as an additional digestive organ.

The organ shown here is, in fact, a museum specimen.

In a way, the microbiome is as much a part of us as any organ.

Of course selling hair is less drastic than an organ.

Placental mammals nourish their offspring-usually born live-through a temporary organ called a placenta.

The brain has long enjoyed a privileged status as psychology's favorite body organ.

Among the techy outfitting was a defibrillator and cooler-chest for donor organ transport.

Forced begging and organ removal are also money-spinners.

The syrinx, a sound-producing organ unique to birds, is located in the trachea.

Heat stroke can cause organ failure, and cold weather has been.

The track's washed-out reverb chorus and resonant organ chords certainly evoke ethereal.

Like any other organ in the body, the brain needs nutrition and exercise.

The sick organ that used to keep these kleptocracies alive was the banking system.

As a result, it has little impact on any one part or organ.

Smoking cigarettes harms almost every organ system in the human body.

In anorexia, death from organ failure or myocardial infarction is fairly common.

Other diseases or aging process of this organ could reduce its activities.

Each dissected body will reveal a different tissue or organ system.

As a result, the brain can do its job inside a secure perimeter not available to any other organ.

Main Entry:	instrument
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	means, agent
Synonyms:	agency, channel, factor, force, instrumentality, material, mechanism, medium, ministry, organ, vehicle, wherewithal
Antonyms:	end

Main Entry:	intermediary
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	person who negotiates
Synonyms:	agent, broker, channel, connection, cutout, delegate, emissary, entrepreneur, fixer, go-between, influence, instrument, interagent, interceder, intercessor, intermediate, mediator, medium, middle person, negotiator, organ, vehicle

Main Entry:	journal
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	chronicle
Synonyms:	account, almanac, annals, annual, calendar, chronology, comic book, daily, daybook, diary, gazette, ledger, log, magazine, memento, memoir, minutes, monthly, newspaper, note, observation, organ, paper, periodical, publication, rag, record, register, reminder, reminiscence, review, scandal sheet, statement, tabloid, weekly

Main Entry:	machinery
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	devices performing work
Synonyms:	accouterment, agency, agent, apparatus, appliance, channel, contraption, contrivance, engine, equipment, gadget, gear, habiliments, implement, instrument, materiel, means, mechanism, medium, method, motor, organ, outfit, paraphernalia, shifts, structure, system, tackle, tool, utensil, vehicle, works

Main Entry:	magazine
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	periodic publication
Synonyms:	annual, bimonthly, biweekly, booklet, broadside, brochure, circular, daily, digest, gazette, glossy, joint, journal, manual, monthly, newsletter, newspaper, organ, pamphlet, paper, periodical, pulp, quarterly, rag, review, semiweekly, sheet, slick, throwaway, weekly

Main Entry:	means
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	way, method
Synonyms:	agency, agent, aid, apparatus, auspices, avenue, channel, course, dodge, equipment, expedient, factor, fashion, gimmick, instrument, instrumentality, instrumentation, intermediary, machinery, manner, measure, mechanism, medium, ministry, mode, modus operandi, organ*, organization, paraphernalia, path, power, process, road, route, step, stepping-stone, system, tactic, technique, trick, vehicle, ways and means

* = informal/non-formal usage
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