Autoplasty (Noun)
Meaning 1
Surgical repair by using tissue from another part of the patient's own body.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- The team of surgeons performed an autoplasty procedure to repair the damaged tissue in the patient's leg using a healthy piece of skin from her thigh.
- In surgery, the doctor used a skin flap from the patient's back to perform an autoplasty on her severely burned arm.
- The medical team decided on autoplasty as the best option to reconstruct the patient's cheek after the serious injury.
- Autoplasty was chosen to repair the large hole left in the patient's skull after a severe head injury by using a piece of bone from his own ribs.
- The orthopedic surgeon was skilled in autoplasty techniques and was able to restore function to the patient's badly damaged elbow.
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Meaning 2
Tissue that is taken from one site and grafted to another site on the same person; "skin from his thigh replaced the burned skin on his arms".
Classification
Nouns denoting body parts.