NOUN
- a piece of skin taken from a donor area and surgically grafted at the site of an injury or burn
How To Use skin graft In A Sentence
- They help to maintain the elasticity in the skin grafts and full mobility in my joints. Times, Sunday Times
- Mundane words such as lesson plan, morning traffic, boyfriend, and tennis club would in an instant give way to medical terms such as skin graft, debride, burn unit, bum victim. Healed by Horses
- Treatment required removing the nevus and resurfacing the child's body with skin grafts.
- Plastic surgeons advise excision of the involved area down to fascia and ligation of associated perforating blood vessels followed by split-thickness skin grafts, but lesions often recur within or around the graft.
- They may also occur at skin graft harvest sites and stoma placement sites or at surgical wounds or scars.
- And even if she does undergo such surgery, called an eyelid skin graft - which would require the surgeon to remove and replace three centimeters of skin near her eyelashes - there are no guarantees. Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
- I can’t help but think it’s actually a kids’ show with an ‘adult’ skin grafted onto it. Brian Ruckley · Torchwood
- If all devitalised tissue has been confidently excised we favour immediate coverage with meshed, split skin grafts secured with a foam vacuum suction dressing.
- Weeks after she was discharged from hospital the burns became gangrenous and she needed skin grafts. The Sun
- Her existence soon becomes a haze of pain, skin grafts, surgeries and other treatments to clean and debride her wounds that are so invasive she must be put in a coma from which she doesn't fully wake for weeks. A 9/11 Survivor Tells Her Story
