procural

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procural - the act of getting possession of something; "he was responsible for the procurement of materials and supplies"

procurance, procurement

acquisition - the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something; "the acquisition of wealth"; "the acquisition of one company by another"

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In the late 1960s, backers of transplantation research unwittingly created these circumstances when they established "brain death" as a definition of death in an effort to ease the procural of human organs for transplantation.

What Quinlan can tell Kevorkian about the right to die

In any case, why should those in the society who manage the process of organ procural and disbursement not empathize sequentially with all who might be saved, thereby letting the numbers of real, equally invaluable rescuable persons build up to turn their decision?