distant flap

[ dĭs′tənt ]

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A surgical flap in which the recipient area is distant from, and must be brought into close approximation to, the donor site.

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The local misses what could have been if they had moved someplace distant and different.
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In the not too distant future, these young people will control billions of dollars.
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In the post-Kefauver era of the early 1950s, it had many advantages over its distant desert sister.
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Bells were pealing and tolling in all directions, and the air was filled with the sound of distant shouts and cries.
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Between South and North, the probabilities of a serious, and no very distant rupture, are strong and manifest.
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The difficulty of educating handlers of bills in distant places as to American credits.
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"Yes, Alessandro," she answered faintly, the gusts sweeping her voice like a distant echo past him.
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See how those distant peaks rise serenely over the southern horizon!
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