autoplasty
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
autoplasty (countable and uncountable, plural autoplasties)
- (medicine, surgery, dated) 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.
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
process
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References[edit]
- “autoplasty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.