heteroplasty

American

[het-er-uh-plas-tee] / ˈhɛt ər əˌplæs ti /

noun

Surgery.

the repair of lesions with tissue from another individual or species.

heteroplasty British

/ ˈhɛtərəʊˌplæstɪ /

noun

the surgical transplantation of tissue obtained from another person or animal

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heteroplastic

adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

heteroplasties

plural

Etymology

Origin of heteroplasty

First recorded in 1850–55; hetero- + -plasty

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