skin graft

skin graft
a) A operation to graft a piece of skin, moving it from one place to another, a dermoplasty.
b) A piece of skin grafted during such a surgery.

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  • Skin Graft — Records Skin Graft Records (officiellement écrit SKiN GRAFT Records) est un éditeur de bandes dessinées et un label musical indépendant. Le label a été fondé à Chicago dans l Illinois en 1986. Sommaire 1 Introduction 2 Skin Graft Comics 3… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Skin graft — Skin that is used to cover an area where the patient’s skin has been lost due to a burn, injury, or surgery. The most effective skin grafts involve moving the patient’s own skin from one part of the body to another. The second most effective type …   Medical dictionary

  • Skin graft — Skin Skin, n. [Icel. skinn; akin to Sw. skinn, Dan. skind, AS. scinn, G. schined to skin.] 1. (Anat.) The external membranous integument of an animal. [1913 Webster] Note: In man, and the vertebrates generally, the skin consist of two layers, an… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • skin graft — n a medical operation in which healthy skin is removed from one part of your body and used on another part to replace burned or damaged skin …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • skin graft — skin ,graft noun count a medical operation in which skin is taken from one part of someone s body and put on another part of their body where skin has been damaged …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • skin graft — skin′ graft n. srg surgically transplanted skin, used for covering a burn or extensive wound • Etymology: 1890–95 …   From formal English to slang

  • skin graft — noun a piece of skin taken from a donor area and surgically grafted at the site of an injury or burn • Hypernyms: ↑skin, ↑tegument, ↑cutis * * * I. transitive verb : to graft skin to II. noun : a piece of skin of variable size and thickness cut… …   Useful english dictionary

  • skin graft — a portion of healthy skin cut from one area of the body and used to cover a part that has lost its skin, usually as a result of injury, burns, or operation. A skin graft is normally taken from another part of the body of the same patient (an… …   The new mediacal dictionary

  • skin graft — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms skin graft : singular skin graft plural skin grafts a medical operation in which skin is taken from one part of someone s body and put on another part of their body where skin has been damaged …   English dictionary

  • skin graft — Surg. 1. skin used for transplanting in skin grafting. 2. an instance of skin grafting. 3. the surgical site of a skin graft. [1890 95] * * * ▪ medicine       transplantation of healthy skin from one area of the body to cover and heal a large… …   Universalium

  • Skin Graft Records — (officiellement écrit SKiN GRAFT Records) est un éditeur de bandes dessinées et un label musical indépendant. Le label a été fondé à Chicago dans l Illinois en 1986. Sommaire 1 Introduction 2 Skin Graft Comics 3 Gumballhead the cat …   Wikipédia en Français

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