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bucket biologist

bucket biologist  n.— Â«There’s a term for people who transplant fish into a body of water where they don’t belong: They’re called “bucket biologists.”» â€”“Idaho Fights Invasive Species With Drawdown, Poison” by...

bikes

bikes  n.pl.— Â«The grinding pedestal -known as the “bikes” (although some occasionally referred to it as something quite unprintable)—was manned by local West Indian Woody who looked as though he could grind non stop all day...

domino transplant

domino transplant n. an organ transplant in which a donor’s heart and lungs are transplanted into second person whose heart, in turn, is transplanted into a third person. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

domino organ transplant

domino organ transplant  n.— Â«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...

domino transplant

domino transplant  n.— Â«The life-saving opportunity occured, after the organs of a baby that could not be saved became available. During a 12-hour surgery, Jason received the heart and lungs transplant, making available at the same time a...

piggyback transplant

piggyback transplant  n.— Â«Jackson had an emergency heart transplant in 1991. Doctors put the new heart beside the old one. The procedure, called a heterotopic transplant, is much rarer than the traditional orthotopic transplant, where the...

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