English Explanatory Dictionary

domino surgery

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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.

Word forms

domino surgery

Etymology

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

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