Grafts

Word GRAFTS
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Definitions and meanings of "Grafts"

What do we mean by grafts?

A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.

A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.

A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.

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The word "grafts" in example sentences

We do have more than cheetahs, which may all descend from a single pair -- they have so little genetic diversity that skin grafts from one cheetah to another are not rejected. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"I've had 30 surgeries, plenty of skin grafts," said Crosbie, now 23. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"We do a fair amount of skin grafts," he explained, adding that even at the hospital, "you shine a light in a cupboard before you put a hand in it." ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2010)

Four children, three planned, one a surprise, skin grafts and organ surgeries had made her very familiar with pain of the body, and she handled it with relaxed ease. ❋ Unknown (2010)

- Unmask the horror: Jason needs some serious skin grafts in pictures from “Friday the 13th.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

I lost the first knuckle on the index finger of my right hand, almost lost the ring finger, and have tendon damage, skin grafts, and a chunk of bone lost. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I can buy the skin grafts and artificial eyes coming from toy dog research, but a nasal spray that increases olfactory sensitivity? ❋ Joshenglish (2008)

When using the pro-growth cocktail, the success rate of heart muscle grafts improved drastically: 100 percent of rat hearts showed successful tissue grafts, compared to only 18 percent in grafts without the cocktail. ❋ Unknown (2007)

For years, bone marrow transplants and skin grafts have harvested the regenerative qualities of stem cells. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Impedimap Technologies, a biomedical engineering development business spun-out of the University of Ulster, has produced the 'smart bandage' which uses electrodes to transmit information on how wounds such as burns, pressure sores and skin grafts are healing. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The Texas surgeons did five skin grafts in a bloody, 28-hour surgery. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The rejection of foreign grafts is then merely an unavoidable byproduct. ❋ Unknown (1992)

The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. ❋ Unknown (1991)

As a life-saving measure for these patients, skin grafts were taken from other persons and used as a temporary surface cover. ❋ Unknown (1991)

Skin grafts from family members seemed to survive longer than those from unrelated donors. ❋ Unknown (1990)

The injection of leucocytes or lymphoid cells can confer tolerance of skin grafts, for example; and later work has shown that the same is true of grafts of thyroid tissue, ovary, kidney, and adrenal gland. ❋ Unknown (1964)

Council, showed that most dizygotic cattle twins would accept skin grafts from each other, and that this mutual tolerance was specific, for skin transplanted from third parties was cast off in the expected fashion. ❋ Unknown (1964)

The state of tolerance is specific in the sense that it will discriminate between one individual and another, for an animal made tolerant of grafts from one individual will not accept grafts from a second individual unrelated to the first; but it will not discriminate between one tissue and another from the same donor. ❋ Unknown (1964)

As was pointed out yesterday, a difference of twenty degrees can mean the difference between “mild burn” and “hospitalization followed by skin grafts,” but ask a geologist or an astronomer whether twenty degrees in temperature matters and they’ll look at you funny. ❋ Funwithrage (2005)

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