organ

[ˈɔːrɡən]

Definition:
1. A part of the body that has a particular purpose, such as the heart or the brain; part of a plant with a particular purpose.
2. A fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function.
3. A government agency or instrument devoted to the performance of some specific function.

Use 'organ' in a sentence:

1. He ground out a tune on an organ.
2. They were starting to replace live orchestras in some movie theaters, and it only takes one person to play an organ.
3. Surgical management of pelvic organ prolapse in a woman with achondroplasia.
4. The most powerful organ of government in Scotland is the Scottish Office.
5. Every organ of state must apply the principle of efficient and simple administration.
6. At the church of the Trinity in Cherbourg on Christmas Day, 1892, he had his debut as a composer with the performance of his andante for string trio and organ.
7. Some scientists have been doing research on artificial internal organs.
8. Deputies to the People's Congresses have the right to address inquiries to state organs.
9. What we now know about the disease was learned by careful study of diseased organs.
10. Designing silicon chips to mimic human organs sounds fanciful.
11. Gills are the organ through which fish breathe.
12. They have these special organs that collect the hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide and then transfer it to another organ, where billions of bacteria live.
13. Evidence shows that smoking harms nearly every organ of the body.
14. The brain is the organ of thought.
15. In the cells of the human body itself, in the cells of every organ, of almost every type of tissue in the body, the same thing will happen eventually.
16. He played a beautiful tune on the organ.
17. Nearly every movie theater, however modest, had a piano or organ to provide musical accompaniment to silent pictures.
18. One casualty of this was The Great Organ constructed in the 1730s, which was said to have escaped the flames but been significantly damaged by water.
19. The eye is one of the most delicate organs of the body.
20. We ended with Blake's Jerusalem, accompanied on the organ by Herbert Wiseman.
21. The terrible constraint on organ transplanation is that every life extended depends on the death of someone young enough and healthy enough to have organs worth transplanting.
22. This paper is the official organ of the socialist party.
23. Patients often reject transplanted organs.
24. I encourage all who enjoy good health to share with others, either as a living donor or by appointing organ donation upon death.
25. A court is one of the chief organs of government.
26. Yeats insists that the heart is an organ of the body, and located in it. This is important.
27. He taught the piano, organ and composition.
28. The terrible constraint on organ transplantation is that every life extended depends on the death of someone young enough and healthy enough to have organs worth transplanting.
29. Parliament is an organ of government.
30. The patient's immune system would reject the transplanted organ as a foreign object.
31. While they were wandering down the street, Heidi found out what a barrel-organ was, for she had never seen one.
32. This time, you're a transplant surgeon and you have five patients, each in desperate need of an organ transplant in order to survive.
33. Poor posture, sitting or walking slouched over, compresses the body's organs.
34. The largest organ in the body is the liver.
35. Early physicians removed the malfunctioning organs.
36. The Security Service is an important organ of the State.
37. The organ pealed, and the children's voices in the choir sounded so sweet and soft!
38. X-rays are used by doctors to examine the bones or organs inside our body.
39. Some supplements can interfere with prescription drugs and too much can cause neuropathy and in severe cases, organ damage.
40. A young man may have a lump in his testicle, but when doctors remove all the organ, they find a big scar.
41. I hope all of us can be as generous and elect to become organ donors.
42. Galileo did not invent the telescope, but on hearing, in 1609, that such an optical instrument had been made, he quickly built his own device from an organ pipe and spectacle lenses.
43. The organs are kept in sealed plastic bags.
44. The organ is penetrated with vascular tissue.
45. A pipe organ gives much more volume than a violin or flute.
46. The timbre of the violin is far richer than that of the mouth organ.
47. The People's Daily is the official organ of the Communist Party of China.
48. When performing, he positions his instruments in a way that is deliberately inconvenient, so that switching from guitar to organ mid-song involves a mad dash across the stage.
49. She plays the organ in church.
50. Is the human heart weak in comparison with the other organs?
51. Organ donation to strangers is considered an unselfish act.
52. It also gives advice on how and when doctors should raise the issue of organ donation.
53. When the organ does appear, it is not only impressive in size, but its bright pink color makes it stand out against the dark fur.