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Recipient
In medicine, a recipient is someone who receives something like a blood transfusion or an organ transplant. The recipient is beholden to the donor.
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One who receives, as in blood transfusion or tissue or organ transplant. [L. recipiens, fr. recipio, to receive]

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re·cip·i·ent ri-'sip-ē-ənt n an individual who receives biological material (as blood or an organ) from a donor

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n.
a person who receives something from a donor, such as a blood transfusion or a kidney transplant.

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re·cip·i·ent (re-sipґe-ənt) one who receives, as blood in transfusion, or a tissue or organ graft.

Medical dictionary. 2011.