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Organ Preservation

"Organ Preservation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The process by which organs are kept viable outside of the organism from which they were removed (i.e., kept from decay by means of a chemical agent, cooling, or a fluid substitute that mimics the natural state within the organism).


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Organ Preservation" by people in this website by year, and whether "Organ Preservation" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 67 publications over 26 distinct years, with a maximum of 12 publications in 2024
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