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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The surgical grafting of tissue obtained from one individual or species to another.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A surgical operation, for the restoration of a lost part, in which the new skin or other tissue is taken from another individual.
- noun Abnormal formation of tissue; heteroplasia.
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- noun The
grafting oftissue betweendifferent individuals of thesame or differentspecies
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