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Encyclopedia > Graft

Graft may refer to:

  • Grafting, where the tissues of one plant are affixed to the tissues of another.
  • Medical grafting, a surgical procedure to transplant tissue without a blood supply.
  • Skin grafting, a type of organ transplant procedure involving skin.
  • Graft (Netherlands), a village in the municipality of Graft-De Rijp
  • photografting
  • In politics, graft is a form of political corruption whereby someone profits personally from the public budget.
  • In some parts of the world, for example in the United Kingdom, graft does not mean political corruption but instead means hard work (as a noun) or to work hard (as a verb). Thus in British dialect, a grafter is someone who works hard.
  • The origins of this word are still unproven, but a likely source is the act of digging, considered a low or menial type of work. In American slang of the mid-1800s, graft was used to mean work. By the late 1800s, the meaning drifted to refer to illegal work. The root word is graaf, the Dutch word for spade.

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Graft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (239 words)
Grafting, where the tissues of one plant are affixed to the tissues of another.
Graft (Netherlands), a village in the municipality of Graft-De Rijp
In politics, graft is a form of political corruption whereby someone profits personally from the public budget.
Superior Vena Cava Bypass Using Spiral Vein Graft - Ministernotomy Technique (493 words)
The length of vein required for a graft of the same size as the innominate vein is related to the ratio of the diameter of the graft desired and the average diameter of the saphenous vein.
An end-to-end anastomosis of the spiral vein graft to the innominate vein is constructed using 7-0 polypropylene suture.
A beveled end-to-end anastomosis of the graft to the atrial appendage is constructed using 5-0 polypropylene suture.
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