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a piece of healthy skin or bone cut from one part of a person's body and used to repair another damaged part, or a piece cut from one living plant and attached to another plant so that it grows there: skin graft He has had a skin graft on his badly burned arm. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Medical treatment: surgery. ablate.
grafted; grafting; grafts. transitive verb. 1. a. : to cause (a scion) to unite with a stock. also : to unite (plants or scion and stock) to form a graft. b. : to propagate (see propagate sense transitive 1) (a plant) by grafting. 2.
A shoot or bud of one plant that is inserted into or joined to the stem, branch, or root of another plant so that the two grow together as a single plant. Grafts are used to strengthen or repair plants, create dwarf trees, produce seedless fruit, and increase fruit yields without requiring plants to mature from seeds.
graft 1. (grăft) v. graft·ed, graft·ing, grafts. v.tr. 1. a. To unite (a shoot or bud) with a growing plant by insertion or by placing in close contact. b. To join (a plant or plants) by such union. 2. To transplant or implant (living tissue, for example) surgically into a bodily part to replace a damaged part or compensate for a defect. 3.
A graft is a piece of healthy skin or bone, or a healthy organ, which is attached to a damaged part of your body by a medical operation in order to replace it.
Graft can mean bribery or corruption. It's also a way of transplanting skin or bones in medicine, as in a skin graft. People who get terrible burns on their faces often have pieces of skin taken from other parts of their bodies to help them heal and look better. That transplanted skin is called a graft.
graft. noun. /ɡrɑːft/ /ɡræft/ [countable] a piece cut from a living plant and fixed in a cut made in another plant, so that it grows there; the process or result of doing this. A healthy shoot should form a strong graft. Topics Plants and trees c2. Want to learn more?
Britannica Dictionary definition of GRAFT. [count] 1. technical : a part of a plant that is placed on another plant in such a way that it attaches to and grows with the plant. also : the place where such an attachment is made.
graft. noun. /ɡræft/. [countable] a piece cut from a living plant and fixed in a cut made in another plant, so that it grows there; the process or result of doing this A healthy shoot should form a strong graft.
GRAFT definition: 1. a piece of skin or bone taken from one part of a body and joined to another part: 2. a piece…. Learn more.
