domino organ transplant
n.— «Clinton House and John Couch—medical history’s first “domino” organ transplant patients—met Thursday for the first time at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.…House…received a heart and lungs from a brain-dead car accident victim. House’s lungs had been ruined by the genetic disease, but his heart was healthy enough to transplant into Couch.» —“Transplant duo meet” USA Today May 22, 1987. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Ever wonder what medieval England looked and sounded like? In Old English, the word hord meant “treasure” and your wordhord was the treasure of words locked up inside you. A delightful new book uses the language of that period to create...
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