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organ
  1. A larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
  2. (by extension) A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions.
  3. (music) A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such.
  4. An official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.
  5. A species of cactus (Stenocereus thurberi).
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “An abscess on an internal organ such as the liver or brain may be diagnosed by X-ray or scanning.”
      “While the first will balance the individual against authority, the second will balance one organ of the government against the other.”
      “He repositioned the journal as a leading organ for his revolutionary ideas.”
organicism
  1. (medicine) The theory that disease is a result of structural alteration of organs. [from 19th c.]
  2. The concept that everything is organic, or forms part of an organic whole. [from 20th c.]
  3. (philosophy) The treatment of society or the universe as if it were an organism.
  4. The theory that the total organization of an organism is more important than the functioning of its individual organs.
  5. Examples:
    1. “Much of his work at Harvard focused on metaphysics, especially his emphasis on organicism and process.”
      “It tended to read as a superficial organicism applied over the work's underlying axiality.”
      “One felt, in her marriage of geometry and chaos, something of the Post-Minimal organicism of Eva Hesse.”
organic
  1. (chemistry) An organic compound.
  2. An organic food.
  3. (science fiction) A living organism, as opposed to a robot or hologram.
organism
  1. (biology) A discrete and complete living thing, such as animal, plant, fungus or microorganism.
  2. (by extension) Any complex thing with properties normally associated with living things.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “It has enabled us to evolve from a single-celled organism into the dominant species on the planet.”
      “But the essence is to realize that an economy is a complex organism of many parts, with independent developments in each.”
      “For successful inactivation of both organism and toxin, both bleach and sodium hydroxide must be applied for a total of 40 minutes.”
organelle
  1. (cytology) A specialized structure found inside cells that carries out a specific life process (e.g. ribosomes, vacuoles).
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  3. Examples:
    1. “This organelle contains a complex membrane system, the thylakoids, in which the photosynthetic machinery is located.”
      “In all eukaryotic cells, the Golgi apparatus is a central organelle in the secretory processes.”
      “Modulation of intracellular calcium also affects organelle position and motility.”
organification
  1. The stabilization of a material within an organ
  2. Examples:
    1. “As a result of organification, hormonally active iodothyronine, T4 and T3 precursor monoidotyrosines and diiodotyrosines occurs.”
organicist
  1. An advocate of organicism. [from 19th c.]
  2. Examples:
    1. “A review of the Italian political thought of the 1920s also discloses deep associations between a rightist voluntarist model and a leftist organicist ideology of the social.”
      “Ostensibly an organicist term for civil society, which enjoyed much currency during the seventeenth century, it nevertheless has a long and interesting genesis.”
      “The organicist view of society has much less appeal to contemporary theorists.”
organist
  1. A musician who plays the organ.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The organist began to play a wedding march and the people looked to the back, waiting for the doors to open and the bride to appear.”
      “The organist often crackled or whined the Gregorian-chant hymns and the celebrant often hummed, mumbled, or whispered the Latin prayers.”
      “Alice took the young organist, who was also her choirmaster, to meet her father.”
organicalness
  1. The quality or state of being organic.
organity
  1. The quality of being an organism.
organicity
organicness
  1. The quality of being organic.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The Echo Nest's organicness attribute is a combination of mechanism and acousticness.”
      Organicness, too, can offer a patina of healthfulness to unsavory substances.”
organella
  1. Synonym of organelle
organifications
  1. plural of organification
organicisms
  1. plural of organicism
organicists
  1. plural of organicist
organicities
organellae
  1. plural of organella
organelles
  1. plural of organelle
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It is demonstrated that gel-immobilized cell organelles reveal features of an excitable medium.”
      “In intact cells the probe was trapped both inside intracellular organelles and the cytoplasm.”
      “Lysosomes are intracellular organelles that specialize in breaking down cellular waste.”
organisms
  1. plural of organism
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The adaptation of organisms to their habitat ultimately depends upon environmental criteria.”
      “What you might not have expected, however, is that the words that describe these organisms are every bit the equal of their visual analogues.”
      “The cell theory states that all biological organisms are composed of cells; cells are the unit of life and all life comes from preexisting life.”
organists
organics
  1. plural of organic
  2. Examples:
    1. “It is considered to be a more effective bactericide than aqueous chlorine and it reduces the formation of chlorinated organics.”
      “In contrast, fossilized bone is believed to be completely mineralized, meaning no organics are present.”
      “Utilizing slow release organics products and plenty of iron and wetting agents are all standard operating procedures for Kevin and his crew.”
organs
  1. plural of organ
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  3. Examples:
    1. “This web-like tissue binds cells and organs together but permits these cells and organs to move, as necessary, in relation to each other.”
      “Foetal organs are well formed and acquire strength by the sixth and seventh months.”
      “The transplantation of organs is now an established part of medical practice.”
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