GRAFTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grafting mean? 

• GRAFTING (noun)
  The noun GRAFTING has 1 sense:

1. the act of grafting something onto something else

  Familiarity information: GRAFTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRAFTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of grafting something onto something else

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

graft; grafting

Hypernyms ("grafting" is a kind of...):

affixation; attachment (the act of attaching or affixing something)

Derivation:

graft (place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient)

graft (cause to grow together parts from different plants)

 Context examples 

An experiment using the technique of merging two plants, known as grafting, resulted in higher fruit yield during periods of less rain.

(Grafting helps pepper plants deal with drought, SciDev.Net)

Undifferentiated tissue; a term used in tissue culture, grafting, and wound healing.

(Callus, Food and Drug Administration)

Grafting of pituitary tissue between genetically identical individuals.

(Pituitary Isograft, NCI Thesaurus)

Grafting or transplanting cells, tissues, or organs between genetically non-identical individuals.

(Allografting, NCI Thesaurus)

The most common type of heart surgery for adults is coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG).

(Heart Surgery, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

The monoclonal antibody CC49 is developed from the murine monoclonal antibody B72.3 and is humanized by grafting the hypervariable regions onto the variable light (VL) and variable heavy (VH) frameworks of the monoclonal antibodies LEN and 21/28' CL. In addition the CH2 domain in the constant region is deleted to increase plasma clearance.

(HuCC49deltaCH2-PA-DOTA, NCI Thesaurus)

Chimeric humanized CC49 (CHCC49) antibodies are generated through replacing the murine immunoglobulin (Ig) constant regions with the human constant regions of the heavy and light Ig chains, as well as through grafting CC49 hypervariable regions onto frameworks of the variable light (VL) and variable heavy (VH) regions of human monoclonal antibodies LEN and 21/28'CL, respectively.

(Chimeric Antibody CHCC49, NCI Thesaurus)

Cardiac rehabilitation (rehab) is a medically supervised program to help people who have: • A heart attack • Angioplasty or coronary artery bypass grafting for coronary heart disease • A heart valve repair or replacement • A heart transplant or a lung transplant • Angina • Heart failure

(Cardiac Rehabilitation, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

The grafting technique is also used to protect plants against pests, which decreases the need for expensive pesticides.

(Grafting helps pepper plants deal with drought, SciDev.Net)

Grafting is common in the farming of watermelon, tomato and cucumber.

(Grafting helps pepper plants deal with drought, SciDev.Net)