(n.) One who gives or bestows; one who confers anything gratuitously; a benefactor.
(n.) One who grants an estate; in later use, one who confers a power; -- the opposite of donee.
Example Sentences:
(1) Immunocompetence was also evident when the cells from thymectomized donors were first incubated with thymus extract for 1 hr and subsequently tested for reactivity.
(2) Acceptance of less than ideal donors is ill-advised even though rejection of such donors conflicts with the current shortage of organs.
(3) The new Somali government has enthusiastically embraced the new deal and created a taskforce, bringing together the government, lead donors (the US, UK, EU, Norway and Denmark), the World Bank and civil society.
(4) However, an anti-nef antibody response was also seen in 5 of 93 (5%) nonrisk dermatological patients and in 4 of 37 (11%) healthy blood donors.
(5) The hypothesis that experimentally determined survival times of Treponema pallidum in stored donor blood could be related to the number of treponemes initially present in the treponeme-blood mixtures was investigated by inoculating rabbits with three graded doses of treponemes suspended in donor blood and stored at 4 degrees C for various periods of time.
(6) Grafts of intermediate thickness (M III) showed excellent clinical healing of the donor and the recipient site.
(7) Seventeen patients (9 sibling and 8 unrelated donors) received conditioning with hyperfractionated total body irradiation (TBI), thiotepa, and cyclophosphamide (Cy).
(8) But because current donor contributions are not sufficient to cover the thousands of schools in need of security, I will ask in the commons debate that the UK government allocates more.
(9) It was recently demonstrated that MRL-lpr lymphoid cells transferred into lethally irradiated MRL- +mice unexpectedly failed to induce the early onset of lupus syndrome and massive lymphadenopathy of the donor, instead they caused a severe wasting syndrome resembling graft-vs-host (GvH) disease.
(10) Sera of 375 blood donors which were seropositive for syphilis were examined for antibodies against Entamoeba histolytica.
(11) The results, together with the known geometry of the enzyme, indicate that active site probes in the dodecamer are widely separated and that energy transfer occurs from a single donor to two or three acceptors on adjacent subunits.
(12) The distribution of conceptions after artificial insemination from a donor was studied in 259 conceptions at an artificial insemination clinic and found to be seasonal.
(13) In clinical situations on donor sites and grafted full-thickness burn wounds, the PEU film indeed prevented fluid accumulation and induced the formation of a "red" coagulum underneath.
(14) Thereafter, donor type cells expressed an intermediate Thy 1.2 brightness; this population then persisted and surpassed the other subsets.
(15) The results of our utilization review were conveyed to local hospitals and the blood supplier in an effort to preserved donor blood.
(16) The second triplet, which was stable in the dark at 4.2 K following illumination, was assigned to the radical pair Donor+I-.
(17) Cytochrome P-450 is known to catalyze the following oxygen transfer reaction: RH + PhIO----ROH + PhI where RH represents a variety of hydroxylatable substrates and PhIO a variety of iodosobenzene derivatives that serve as oxygen donors, and neither molecular oxygen nor an external electron donor is required.
(18) The control group was made up of 30 normal persons (donors).
(19) Donor organs were anastomosed parallel to the recipient's heart and right lung, and the superior vena cava inflow was directed into the transplanted heart-left lung block after ligation of the recipient's superior vena cava proximal to the caval anastomosis.
(20) One-year graft survival was 98% in HLA-identical grafts (n = 73), 91% in haploidentical grafts (n = 411), 89% in 2 haplotype-mismatched related grafts (n = 38), and 85% in spousal donor grafts (n = 71).
Legator
Definition:
(n.) A testator; one who bequeaths a legacy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eight patients with hepatocellular carcinoma and positive serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) levels were treated by hepatic artery legation and postoperative chemotherapy.
(2) (1) Bile duct legation protects against aspirin-induced gastric mucosal lesions by inhibiting gastric HCl secretion.
(3) Evidence is presented suggesting that recurrent saphenofemoral incompetence may occur after an efficiently performed high legation of the great saphenous vein flush with the femoral vein.
(4) We have legats [legal attaches] there from the FBI and State Department, very small to the extent that we are asked.
(5) Although she had her first ballet lessons in Ndola, her training was essentially in Britain, first with Flora Fairbairn, then with the great pedagogue Nicholas Legat and, after his death in 1937, with his widow Nadine Nicolayeva.
(6) Those on the statue are taken from the typed version he sent to the American legation in Brussels, which passed them on to London.
(7) However, if the wire is too firmly legated to the teeth with a flexure of more than 2.0 mm for the former, and more than 0.5 mm for the latter, there is the danger of excessively strengthening the orthodontic force.
(8) For Waugh, the club consisted of “epileptic royalty from their villas of exile; uncouth peers from crumbling country seats; smooth young men of uncertain tastes from embassies and legations; illiterate lairds from wet granite hovels in the Highlands; ambitious young barristers and Conservative candidates torn from the London season and the indelicate advances of debutantes; all that was most sonorous of name and title”.
(9) The file shows Roger Hollis, head of MI5, arguing in 1944: “You may think the case against Costello himself is a thin one, and I think I should add that we have information from entirely reliable but very secret sources that certain of the Communist party leaders were aware of Costello’s departure from this country in July last.” Costello continued his career in the New Zealand diplomatic service and in 1950 was promoted to be first secretary at the Paris legation.
(10) Studies were carried out to investigate this question in normal dogs, sham-operated animals, and dogs with acute and chronic legation of CBD.
(11) She was travelling to meet her mother and stepfather in Damascus, where he had been posted as minister at the British Legation.
(12) The purpose of the present study was to determine whether bile duct legation of pylorus ligation in the rat inhibits asprin-induced gastric lesions, and, if so, what the protective mechanisms are.
(13) Immediately after legation of coronary arteries (CA) and during the next 2 days mesaton was introduced in a single dose into the marginal auricular vein of 12 rabbits with EMI.
(14) He joined the army and served as an intelligence officer and translator for the New Zealand forces in north Africa and Italy before being appointed by the New Zealand government in 1944 as second secretary to their legation in Moscow.