autoplasty
autoplasty · autoplasties
The process of artificially repairing lesions by taking a piece of healthy tissue, as…The process of artificially repairing lesions by taking a piece of healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to supply the deficiency caused by disease or wounds. In present-day contexts likelier to be called autotransplantation or autografting.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, dated, uncountable)The process of artificially repairing lesions by taking a piece of healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to supply the deficiency caused by disease or wounds. In present-day contexts likelier to be called autotransplantation or autografting.
Autoplastie
More definitions
- surgical repair by using tissue from another part of the patient's own body
- tissue that is taken from one site and grafted to another site on the same person
Translations
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Origin
From auto- + -plasty.From auto- + -plasty.
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Forms
plural: autoplasties| Singular | autoplasty |
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Synonyms
1 synonymsClose in meaning
- tissue that is taken from one site and grafted to another site on the same person:autograft
Word family
1 related wordsRelatedautoplastic
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable