skin grafting
nounSurgery.
the transplanting of healthy skin from the patient's or another's body to a wound or burn, to form new skin.
Origin of skin grafting
1First recorded in 1875–80
- Also called dermatoplasty, dermoplasty.
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How to use skin grafting in a sentence
As a rule, skin-grafting is not necessary after this operation.
If skin-grafting be performed a week or more after the primary operation.
Readers are doubtless aware of the curious results that may be obtained by skin-grafting.
All of the frost has been taken out, but I think skin-grafting is the only thing that will cure it.
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole | Matthew A. HensonA week or ten days later, as soon as granulations begin to form, skin-grafting may be undertaken (see p. 410).
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