Artificial organ a stationary power supply or other stationary resources such as filters or chemical processing units. (Periodic rapid recharging of batteries, refilling of chemicals, and/or cleaning/replacing of filters would exclude a device from being called an artificial organ.) Thus, a dialysis machine, while a very successful and critically important life support device that almost completely replaces the duties of a kidney, is not an artificial organ. Constructing and installing artificial organs, an extremely research-intensive and expensive process initially, may entail many years of ongoing maintenance services not needed by a natural organ.: The use of any artificial organ by humans is
Heart Flesh Degeneration Heart Flesh Degeneration Heart Flesh Degeneration () is a novel written by Ludwig Laher in 2001 in which the author portrays the Austrian provinces in the years 1940 to 1955. In the southwest of the Upper Austrian region of Innviertel, during the Nazi period called Oberdonau, the NSDAP wants to drain the Ibmer moor. The plan is to create 250 new farms on the land. But first, forced labourers have to regulate the river Moosach under the worst conditions. People get sent to a so-called labour education camp created by the mayor, who wants to get rid of them, often