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  2. Organ procurement - Wikipedia

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    According to the World Health Organization (WHO), illegal organ trade occurs when organs are removed from the body for the purpose of commercial transactions. [19] Despite ordinances against organ sales, this practice persists, with studies estimating that anywhere from 5% to 42% of transplanted organs are illicitly purchased.

  3. Organ trade - Wikipedia

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    Organ trade (also known as the blood market or the red market) is the trading of human organs, tissues, or other body products, usually for transplantation. [1] [2] According to the World Health Organization (WHO), organ trade is a commercial transplantation where there is a profit, or transplantations that occur outside of national medical systems.

  4. Biomedical Tissue Services - Wikipedia

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    Biomedical Tissue Services (BTS) was a Fort Lee, New Jersey, human tissue recovery firm that was shut down by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) [1] on October 8, 2005, [2] after its president, Michael Mastromarino, and three other employees were charged with illegally harvesting human bones, organs, tissue and other cadaver parts from individuals awaiting cremation, for forging ...

  5. Promession - Wikipedia

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    Promession as a functional method is questioned. No facility for promession has been built or put into service. Critics argue that there is a physical [5] impossibility to atomize a freeze dried human body in this way. [4] [6]

  6. Human organ trafficking in Egypt - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] Sources in the organ trafficking process mainly come from vulnerable populations including domestic rural migrants, undocumented asylum seekers and informal labor. The emergence of cultural and religious increase in organ trade and transplant tourism contribute to the rocketing demand for organ trafficking market in Egypt.

  7. Vessel harvesting - Wikipedia

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    Vessel harvesting is a surgical technique that may be used in conjunction with a coronary artery bypass graft (CABG). For patients with coronary artery disease , a vascular bypass may be recommended to reroute blood around blocked arteries to restore and improve blood flow and oxygen to the heart.

  8. Slash (logging) - Wikipedia

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    Where logging takes place on soft ground, loggers can use the branches and tops of trees as part of the timber-harvesting process to provide a track for forest machines. [5] Using slash in this manner reduces ground damage.

  9. Threshing floor - Wikipedia

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    The harvest could be stored in the barn and threshed during the winter. Barns may have a granary room or a separate granary building may have been used to store the threshed crop. A unique barn feature in some barns in parts of the northeast United States, called a swing beam , was designed for animals to walk in circles around a pole inside ...