autoplasties

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A form of autoplasty — The process of artificially repairing lesions by taking a piece of healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to supply the deficiency caused by disease or wounds. In present-day contexts likelier to be called autotransplantation or autografting.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of autoplasty
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