autoplasty

English

Etymology

auto- +‎ -plasty

Noun

autoplasty (countable and uncountable, plural autoplasties)

1. (medicine, surgery, dated) The process of artificially repairing lesions by taking a piece of healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to supply the deficiency caused by disease or wounds. In present-day contexts likelier to be called autotransplantation or autografting.

Related terms

• autoplastic

Translations

process

• Catalan: autoplàstia f
• Finnish: autoplastia
• French: greffe (fr) f, autoplastie (fr) f
• German: Autoplastie f
• Romanian: autoplastie (ro) f
• Spanish: autoplastia f

References

• autoplasty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913