grafting
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6.4
- noun
- /ˈɡræftɪŋ/
- Specialized
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- Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is a common procedure for the treatment of coronary artery disease.
- bypass grafting
- coronary artery bypass grafting
- skin grafting
But you can also do summer grafting from July through to September.
- But you can also do summer grafting from July through to September.
Examples
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Now, I know everyone here is familiar with the standard techniques of skin grafting, but what we're going to do is a little out of the ordinary.
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Patients who required debridement and skin grafting were excluded from the present review.
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But you can also do summer grafting from July through to September.
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Five years after nerve grafting, the patient reports that she is very pleased with the result.
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They use it for skin grafting.
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Eventually the wine was restored, the vineyards in France restored by grafting onto American stocks.
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What is the role of autologous fat grafting as an adjunct to breast reconstruction?
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If the periosteum is intact after tumor excision, skin grafting may be used due to a vascularly rich bed.
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They knew the techniques for grafting and improving and domesticating species of grapes and olives particularly.
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The farmer demonstrated grafting by carefully inserting a twig from a healthy tree into a different plant.
Synonyms
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5.5
A piece of plant joined to another to grow as one
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5.4
An act of moving a person, animal, or plant to a new place
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Moving a plant or part of the body from one place to another
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
How Complex
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Morphology
Etymology
Grafting comes from an old gardening idea: a graft was a small 'shoot' or 'branch' that people put into another plant so it would grow with it. That's why grafting means joining one thing to another—like a twig to a tree or a piece of skin to a body—so they unite and grow together.