skin graft
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3.5
- noun
- /skɪn græft/
- Specialized
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injerto de piel
- After a severe burn, the doctor recommended a skin graft to promote healing.
- thickness skin graft
And I had to have all these skin grafts on my legs.
- And I had to have all these skin grafts on my legs.
- And it was designed by a cosmetic surgeon who was giving he'd given skin grafts to burns victims, facial burns victims.
- From a titanium faceplate to all the different skin grafts, he found himself in a life ambush, right?
- So that surgery I did skin graft, my skin graft operations.
Examples
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Skin grafts may also heal with distortion and hypo- or hyperpigmentation.
Academic text (2015) -
Mr. Underwood needed extensive skin grafts to his back and is still receiving treatment.
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Not all the skin grafts took.
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First thing I want to do is to check out some of the skin grafts we did for you.
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And I had to have all these skin grafts on my legs.
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Skin grafts will be necessary here.
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We're sorry, the skin grafts just didn't take.
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Pearl needed skin grafts, otherwise she might lose her limbs or she might even die.
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Chest reconstruction for trans men and other surgeries may include skin grafts.
Academic text (2011) -
As a result of the defect, the chemical leaked, spilling onto the employee's leg, requiring skin grafts and eight months off work.
Academic text (2015)
Synonyms
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A piece of living body tissue moved from one person to another in surgery
How Complex
- Specialized
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8.1
- Specialized
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3.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'skin' (the body's outer tissue) plus 'graft' (a transplanted piece of tissue), so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to transplanted skin. This noun–noun compound follows a common cross-linguistic medical pattern (e.g., Spanish 'injerto de piel', French 'greffe de peau'), making it transparently understandable.
Etymology
Skin graft comes from a very literal image: doctors take a small piece of skin and graft it onto a damaged area like a patch to cover the wound. So, skin graft means 'a piece of healthy skin moved to cover and help heal damaged skin'.