skin grafting
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of skin grafting
First recorded in 1875–80
Example Sentences
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“In Italy, skin grafting had evolved as a peasant’s operation, linked culturally and technically to the farmer’s procedure of plant grafting.”
From New York Times • May 14, 2022
To save his hand, surgeons employed a wartime skin grafting technique known as a pedicled flap, which involved attaching it to his abdomen to help the skin tissue heal.
From BBC • Oct. 28, 2021
Skin picking can lead to infections that require intravenous antibiotics and skin grafting.
From Slate • Aug. 22, 2018
Five days a week, they travel to Newton, where he goes into a hyperbaric chamber to heal stubborn wounds from the skin grafting.
From Washington Times • Sep. 11, 2015
Other methods such as injecting some substance under the bark, applying antiseptics, or some stimulating chemical in a similar way, as "Scarlet Red" is used in skin grafting to increase epithelial growth, may aid materially.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fourteenth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. September 26, 27 and 28 1923 by Northern Nut Growers Association
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