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autograft

noun

Etymology

From auto- + graft.

  1. derived from γραφείον
  2. derived from graphium
  3. derived from greffe
  4. inherited from graffe
  5. prefixed as autograft — “auto + graft”

Definitions

  1. A tissue graft taken from one part to another of the same individual's body.

  2. To graft in this manner.

    • During this time surgeons began experimenting with autografting, which involved removing bone from one part of the body of a patient and transferring it to another.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for autograft. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA