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contact — n Contact, touch mean the state or fact of coming into direct connection or close association with someone or something. Contact implies the mutual relation between two bodies that impinge upon each other {the tangent at its point of contact with … New Dictionary of Synonyms
Organ — • A musical instrument which consists of one or several sets of pipes, each pipe giving only one tone, and which is blown and played by mechanical means. Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Organ Organ … Catholic encyclopedia
Organ xenotransplantation — Xenotransplantation is the transplantation of cells, tissues, or organs occurring between species. This includes body fluids, cells, tissues or organs that have had ex vivo contact with the live cells, tissues or organs of a different species… … Wikipedia
Organ transplantation in the People's Republic of China — Trend in kidney and liver transplants in the People s Republic of China (1997–2007)[1] Organ transplantation in the People s Republic of China has taken place since t … Wikipedia
Organ²/ASLSP — L église Saint Burchardi de Halberstadt, en Allemagne Organ²/ASLSP (As SLow aS Possible, c est à dire « aussi lentement que possible ») est une œuvre musicale de John Cage qui est le sujet d une des performances musicales les plus… … Wikipédia en Français
Water organ — The water organ or hydraulic organ (early types are sometimes called hydraulis, hydraulos, hydraulus or hydraula) is a type of automatic pipe organ blown by air, where the power source pushing the air is derived by water from a natural source… … Wikipedia
Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting — is a medical non profit organization that has been founded by medical doctors. In their Mission Statement, DAFOH refers to the Hippocratic Oath, Declaration of Helsinki, and other declarations of ethics in medicine. The organization is based in… … Wikipedia
pearl organ — breeding tubercle (usually small, raised, epidermal structures on regions of the head, body, or fin rays where two individuals come in contact. May consist of aggregations of non keratinized epidermal cells, the same with a light, superficial… … Dictionary of ichthyology
First Contact (novelette) — Infobox short story | name = First Contact author = Murray Leinster genre = Science fiction publisher = Astounding Science Fiction release date = 1945 First Contact is a science fiction novelette by Murray Leinster. It won a retro Hugo Award for… … Wikipedia
Haller's organ — (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) A complex sensory setal field within one or more pits, on the dorsal aspect of tarsus I of ticks and mites, providing sites for contact or olfactory chemoreception … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
