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Graft — Healthy skin, bone, or other tissue taken from one part of the body to replace diseased or injured tissue removed from another part of the body. For example, skin grafts can be used to cover areas of skin that have been burned or surgically… … Medical dictionary
Davis graft — Da·vis graft (daґvis) [John Staige Davis, American surgeon, 1872–1946] pinch graft; see under graft … Medical dictionary
Reverdin graft needle — Re·ver·din graft, needle (rĕ ver dăґ) [Jacques Louis Reverdin, Swiss surgeon, 1842–1929] see pinch graft, under graft, and see under needle … Medical dictionary
Davis graft — pinch g … Medical dictionary
Reverdin graft — pinch g … Medical dictionary
Skin graft — Skin that is used to cover an area where the patient’s skin has been lost due to a burn, injury, or surgery. The most effective skin grafts involve moving the patient’s own skin from one part of the body to another. The second most effective type … Medical dictionary
skin graft — a portion of healthy skin cut from one area of the body and used to cover a part that has lost its skin, usually as a result of injury, burns, or operation. A skin graft is normally taken from another part of the body of the same patient (an… … The new mediacal dictionary
skin graft — Surg. 1. skin used for transplanting in skin grafting. 2. an instance of skin grafting. 3. the surgical site of a skin graft. [1890 95] * * * ▪ medicine transplantation of healthy skin from one area of the body to cover and heal a large… … Universalium
Skin graft, pinch — A graft technique in which very small squares of skin are attached to the area needing coverage, in hopes that they will start to grow and cover it … Medical dictionary
Jacques-Louis Reverdin — (August 28, 1842 January 9, 1929) was a Swiss surgeon who was a native of Cologny. He studied at the University of Paris, and in 1865 became an interne des hôpitaux . He 1869 he became an assistant to Jean Casimir Félix Guyon (1831 1920) in the… … Wikipedia
