A blood donation occurs when a person voluntarily has blood drawn and used for transfusions or made into medications by a process called fractionation. In the developed world, most blood do...
Car donation is the practice of giving away no-longer-wanted automobile s or other vehicles to charitable organization s. In the United States, these donations can provide a tax benefit and have ...
Egg donation is the process by which a woman provides one or several (usually 10-15) eggs ( ova, oocytes) for purposes of assisted reproduction or biomedical research. For assisted reproduction purpo...
Organ donation is the donation of biological tissue or an organ of the human body, from a living or dead person to a living recipient in need of a transplantation. Transplantable organs and ...
Body donation is the donation of the whole body after death for medical research and education. For years, only medical schools accepted whole bodies for donation, but now private programs also a...
A Donation, when referred to in canon law in the Roman Catholic Church, is defined as the gratuitous transfer to another of some right or thing. When it consists in placing in the hands of the donee...
Sperm donation is the provision (or ˜donation™) by a man, (known as a ˜sperm donor™), of his sperm, with the intention that it be used to impregnate a woman who is not usually the man's sexual partn...
In Japanese, Saisen|è³½éŠ refers to money offered to the gods or bodhisattvas. It commonly refers to money put in a saisen box|è³½éŠç®±|saisen-bako, a common item at Shinto shrine s and Buddhi...
Donation Pixel is an internet based charity organisation founded in 2006, with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. They aim to provide support for low-profile causes, and to list the names and log...
The Donation of Sutri was an agreement reached at Sutri by Liutprand, King of the Lombards and Pope Gregory II in 728. At Sutri, the two reached an agreement by which the city and some hill...
The "Donation of Pepin", the first in 754, and second in 756, provided a legal basis for the formal organizing of the Papal States, which inaugurated papal temporal rule over civil authorities. The...
The Donation of Constantine ( Latin, Donatio Constantini) is a forged Roman imperial decree by which the emperor Constantine I supposedly transferred authority over Rome and the western part of...
The Donation Land Claim Act of 1850 (ch. 76, , enacted September 27, 1850, sometimes known as the Donation Land Act) was a statute enacted by the United States Congress intended to promote homes...
A gamete (from Ancient Greek γαμÎÏ„Î·Ï gametes "husband" / γαμετή gamete "wife") is a cell that fuses with another cell during fertilization (conception) in organism s that rep...
