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domino surgery

domino surgery noun: a sequential chain of organ transplants where each recipient donates another organ to another person in exchange for the one that they have received.

Noun

domino surgery (uncountable)

  1. A sequential chain of organ transplants where each recipient donates another organ to another person in exchange for the one that they have received.

Origin of domino surgery

By analogy with a row of dominos lined up so that they fall in sequence when the first is pushed.

Questions about domino surgery

What does domino surgery mean?
Domino surgery means a sequential chain of organ transplants where each recipient donates another organ to another person in exchange for the one that they have received.
What part of speech is domino surgery?
Domino surgery is a noun.

Words near domino surgery in the dictionary

  1. domino costumes
  2. domino effect
  3. domino effects
  4. domino mask
  5. domino masks
  6. domino surgery
  7. domino theory
  8. domino whist
  9. dominoed
  10. dominoes
  11. Dominoid

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