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autograft.

Noun
Sci-FiSettingTechnical
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Tissue transplanted from one place to another within the same individual.

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  • a skin autograft
  • autograft tissue

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The skin autograft left a donor site that needed care as well.
She asked why the autograft was suitable for this wound but not the earlier injury.

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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular autograft; plural autografts. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.

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