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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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The grafting of tissue between different individuals of the same or different species

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