noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   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. countable, dated, uncountable
2. 2
   surgical repair by using tissue from another part of the patient's own body wordnet
3. 3
   tissue that is taken from one site and grafted to another site on the same person wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

autograftautograft

Etymology

From auto- + -plasty.

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