AUTOGRAFT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Tissue that is taken from one site and grafted to another site on the same person

Example:

skin from his thigh replaced the burned skin on his arms

Synonyms:

autograft; autoplasty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

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

graft; transplant ((surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient)

Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb autograft