graft
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5.5
- noun
- /ɡræft/
- Specialized
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injerto
- Her grafts seem to be healing well.
Examples
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In this experiment, the host was derived from a chick embryo and the graft was from a quail limb bud.
Academic text (2018) -
Neutral field grafts have never been used internally.
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I think the graft is going to be just fine, Al.
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"Sarah touched the edge of the graft, a bit of the gel sticking to her fingers."
Fiction book (1994) -
I have the bill for the pear grafts obtained on the English exchange.
Fiction book (1992) -
Two of our patients underwent aorto-bifemoral bypass grafting with a synthetic graft after failed thromboembolectomy.
Academic text (2007) -
The upper and midface were suspended with a fascia lata graft, and a lower lid tarsorrhaphy was performed.
Academic text (2004) -
We've been monitoring the internal grafts electronically and there is definitely new tissue growth happening in the abdominal cavity.
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Autogenous temporalis fascia grafts represented a fundamental step in the evolution of tympanoplastic techniques.
Academic text (1995) -
The gardener showed me how to make a successful graft between two different types of rose bushes.
Synonyms
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6.4
The act of joining one thing to another so they grow together, like a plant branch or skin
Joining part of one plant to another so it grows as one plant
A cut from one plant that joins and grows on another plant
Joining a young shoot to a growing plant while it stays attached to its parent
Separate parts or cells stick together to form one group
Compounds
- Specialized
7
3.5
A piece of healthy skin taken from one body part and placed on damaged skin to help it heal
- Specialized
1
4.6
A surgery that uses a healthy blood vessel to go around a blocked heart artery and restore blood flow
- Specialized
An operation that replaces a damaged clear layer at the front of the eye with healthy donor tissue
How Permanent
Surface Forms
Etymology
Graft in gardening comes from the old practice of putting a small piece of one plant, a 'cutting', into another so they join and 'grow as one'. So a graft is the piece of plant used to make that join.