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flap

flap

12 8.1
A piece of skin and tissue still attached at one side used to cover a wound
  • noun
  • /flæp/
  • Specialized
translation icon : colgajo
  • To close the defect, a skin flap was carefully placed over the exposed area and stitched into place.
  • skin flap
  • musculocutaneous flap
  • flap necrosis

And then, yeah, screw, screw in the implant and then skin flap and then suture and then you're out.

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Examples

  • The surgeon will lift the flap, the front flap of the cornea up using a kind of a soft pair of tweezers.

  • Figure 3 shows a typical result following inverted LD musculocutaneous flap breast reconstruction.

    Academic text (2012)

  • So like, I kind of exposed a flap of skin on my hand here and it's bleeding a lot.

  • I'm not quite sure if I need stitches but this flap of skin has closed back down now.

  • And what we do here is we actually first we reflect a little flap of the cornea using one type of a laser.

  • Sam takes the stick and gently pushes away the flap of torn skin for a better look.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • One patient in our series required a second DIEP flap from the opposite hemiabdomen.

    Academic text (2005)

  • Surgeons then lift the flap to expose the inside of the cornea.

  • Coverage of the exposed bone is obtained with a rotation flap from the dorsum of the thumb.

    Academic text (2015)

  • After the surgery, the doctor explained how the flap of skin would cover the wound and promote healing.

Synonyms

protective fold
vsflap
7.7

A layer of skin or tissue that covers and keeps a nearby body part safe

is surgical tissue that stays partly attached to keep blood supply

Antonyms

detached
2 4.3

Something loose and not fixed to the thing it belongs to

Idioms

to flap one's gums
  • Informal
2 8.7

Talk a lot about things that do not matter

Compounds

tent flap
1 2.9

A piece of cloth like a door that opens and closes at a tent entrance

pocket flap
1 3.5

A piece of cloth that covers a pocket opening to keep things safe and make the pocket look neater

flap flap
6.8

The repeated sound wings make when they move

landing flap
  • Specialized
5.5

A part under a plane wing that moves down to give more lift and slow the plane when landing

How Attached

skin graft
  • Specialized
7 3.5
flap
  • Specialized
12 8.1

Surface Forms

flap singular
flaps plural

Etymology

Flap in surgery is named like a small piece of skin that is partly loose but still attached, much like a cloth flap. So a surgical flap is skin moved to cover a wound while it keeps its blood supply.