SKIN GRAFT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does skin graft mean? 

• SKIN GRAFT (noun)
  The noun SKIN GRAFT has 1 sense:

1. a piece of skin taken from a donor area and surgically grafted at the site of an injury or burn

  Familiarity information: SKIN GRAFT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SKIN GRAFT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A piece of skin taken from a donor area and surgically grafted at the site of an injury or burn

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("skin graft" is a kind of...):

cutis; skin; tegument (a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch)

 Context examples 

A skin graft sheet composed of viable cells layered on a supporting substrate.

(Cellular Sheet Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

Hirudotherapy is mainly used in trauma and plastic and reconstructive surgery to salvage tissue flaps and skin grafts whose viability is threatened by venous congestion.

(Hirudotherapy, NCI Thesaurus)