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Donorcycle
· noun · medical
Hospital slang for a motorcycle — a reliable pipeline of fresh organ donors.
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ER and trauma-team nickname for a motorcycle. The grim joke: bikers crash, bikers die young and healthy, and their organs end up on ice for transplant. Trauma surgeons use it without flinching — gallows humour is the job.
“Another donorcycle rolled in around 2 a.m. — helmet off, no chance.”
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Donorcycle In A Sentence
Another donorcycle rolled in around 2 a.m. — helmet off, no chance.
Origin & Usage
American emergency medicine slang, popularised in trauma units from the 1980s onward as motorcycle fatalities became a leading source of transplantable organs.
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