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• n  the act of grafting something onto something else
• v  cause to grow together parts from different plants
• v  place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient

• The skin-grafting operation was a bloody business.

• graft
• engraft
• ingraft
• transplant

News & Articles

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• Neuroscientist: First-Ever Human Head Transplant Is Now Possible
  dryriver writes "Technical barriers to grafting one person's head onto another person's body can now be overcome, says Dr. Sergio Canavero, a member of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group. In a recent paper, Canavero outlines a procedure modeled on successful head transplants which have been carried out in animals since 1970. The one problem with these transplants was that scientists were ...
  July 2, 2013 - Slashdot
• Fat grafting techniques for breast reconstruction are commonly used by US plastic surgeons
  ( Wolters Kluwer Health ) Seventy percent of US plastic surgeons have used fat grafting techniques for breast operations, but they are more likely to use it for breast reconstruction rather than cosmetic breast surgery, reports a survey study in the July issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.
  July 1, 2013 - EurekAlert!
• Fat Grafting Techniques for Breast Reconstruction Are Commonly Used by U.S. Plastic Surgeons
  Seventy percent of U.S. plastic surgeons have used fat grafting techniques for breast operations, but they are more likely to use it for breast reconstruction rather than cosmetic breast surgery, reports a survey study in the July issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery(r), the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).
  July 1, 2013 - Newswise

Quotes

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• Steve Coppell in Sportinglife.com
  He's been grafting away and working hard,said Coppell. "He scored a wonder goal for Ireland, and his overall contribution was very good. I just got a feeling that he will score goals - you can sense it in games. You just have to be patient...
• Paul Ifill in Stuff.co.nz
  I do [feel like I'm winning the crowd over], just doing what I normally do, but I haven't set any goals up yet and I'd like to make a few more chances for Greenie [Chris Greenacre],Ifill said. "The grafting work he has been doing has...