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the ultimate regift — someone's organ outliving them inside a stranger who says thanks
means To move something living — an organ, a plant, a person — from one place or body and re-establish it in another.
from From Latin 'transplantare,' a tidy fusion of 'trans-' (across) and 'plantare' (to plant, from 'planta,' the sole of the foot — because you pressed a seedling into the soil with your heel). It began literally in the garden, uprooting and replanting, before it grew to cover uprooted people and, much later, the borrowed organs of modern medicine.
- first success
- 1954 kidney swapped between identical twins
- cell memory
- some recipients report new cravings, no proof why
- organ shelf life
- hearts last about four hours outside body
- face transplants
- recipient looks like neither donor nor original
- waitlist scale
- over 100,000 people wait in the US alone
heart transplant chris bernard — first successful human heart transplant by norman shuway team at stanford, 1968
hand transplant aaron james — first hand transplant in the us, performed at louisville in 1999