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Encyclopedia > Medical grafting

In medicine, grafting is a surgical procedure to transplant tissue without a blood supply. The implanted tissue must obtain a blood supply from the new vascular bed or otherwise die. The term is most commonly applied to skin grafting, however many tissues can be grafted: skin, bone, nerves, tendons and cornea are the tissues commonly grafted today. Another relatively common form of animal grafting for humans is grafting a limb onto the stub of another limb missing the part that is being grafted onto it. I read about this girl who had her dead twin sister's arm grafted onto her stub of an arm (it didn't grow properly) Medicine is the branch of health science and the sector of public life concerned with maintaining human health or restoring it through the treatment of disease and injury. ... Surgery Surgery is the medical specialty that treats diseases or injuries by operative manual and instrumental treatment. ... An organ transplant is the transplantation of an organ (or part of one) from one body to another, for the purpose of replacing the recipients damaged or failing organ with a working one from the donor. ... Skin Graft is an influential contemporary no wave, noise rock, art punk, rock label based in Chicago. ...


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MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Abdominal aortic aneurysm (623 words)
The abnormal vessel is replaced with a graft made of synthetic material, such as Dacron.
An endovascular stent graft is a tube made of metal mesh that helps support the artery.
The stent graft is sent through a catheter, and permanently placed into the artery.
Grafting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1281 words)
Grafting is a method of plant propagation widely used in horticulture, where the tissues of one plant are encouraged to fuse with those of another.
In stem grafting, a common grafting method, a shoot of a selected, desired plant cultivar is grafted onto the stock of another type.
In this case a bridge graft may be used to connect the tissues receiving flow from the roots to the tissues above the damage which have been severed from the flow.
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