remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation; "The Chinese are said to harvest organs from executed criminals"

(see Stem cell retrieval)

The removal of a donor's bone marrow prior to bone marrow transplant.

The process of taking the bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cells from the donor. The two procedures are bone marrow transplant or donation of peripheral blood stem cells.

to obtain and remove blood , bone marrow and etc from the donor to be put into the recipient.

Term no longer used by organ and tissue donor families. See Recover

the process of collecting stem cells from patients' or donors' peripheral blood , bone marrow or cord blood.