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Medical Definition of organism. : an individual constituted to carry on the activities of life by means of organs separate in function but mutually dependent : a living being.
The definition of an organism Wikipedia gives is. An organism is any contiguous living system. I understand that these are not organisms according to this definition: A bird and a tree it's perching on are living and contiguous, but they don't form a system. All humans are living and form a system, but they are not contiguous.