Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In surgery, the repairing of superficial lesions, or solutions of continuity, by the employment of adjacent healthy structure, as by transplanting a neighboring portion of skin. Noses, etc., are thus restored.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Surg.) The art of operation of restoring lost parts or the normal shape by the use of healthy tissue.
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- noun surgery The
operation of restoring lost parts or the normal shape by the use ofhealthy tissue .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic reformation of tissue
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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