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The process of artificially repairing lesions by taking a piece of healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to supply the deficiency caused by disease or wounds. In present-day contexts likelier to be called autotransplantation or autografting.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, dated, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences, surgery
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
surgical repair by using tissue from another part of the patient's own body
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: plastic surgery, reconstructive surgery, anaplasty
tissue that is taken from one site and grafted to another site on the same person
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- skin from his thigh replaced the burned skin on his arms
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: autograft
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: graft, transplant
Across languages
Translations
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Catalan:
autoplàstia
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Finnish:
autoplastia
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French:
greffe
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French:
autoplastie
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German:
Autoplastie
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Romanian:
autoplastie
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Spanish:
autoplastia
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