AUTOGRAFT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does autograft mean? 

• AUTOGRAFT (noun)
  The noun AUTOGRAFT has 1 sense:

1. tissue that is taken from one site and grafted to another site on the same person

  Familiarity information: AUTOGRAFT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUTOGRAFT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

autograft; autoplasty

Context example:

skin from his thigh replaced the burned skin on his arms

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)

 Context examples 

Surgery performed with the purpose of replacing a degenerated, calcified, malformed, dysfunctional, etc. mitral valve with bioprosthetic, homograft or autograft valve.

(Mitral Valve Replacement, NCI Thesaurus)

Autograft bone often comes from your ribs, hips or a leg.

(Bone Grafts, NIH)

Surgery performed with the purpose of replacing a degenerated, calcified, malformed, dysfunctional, etc. aortic valve with a bioprosthetic, homograft, or autograft valve.

(Aortic Valve Replacement, NCI Thesaurus)

If the transplanted bone comes from another part of your own body, it is called an autograft.

(Bone Grafts, NIH)