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noun

graft

CEFR C1

(surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient

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Six example sentences with graft, each labelled with its topic.

  • The surgeon took a graft from the patient's own thigh, which lowered the chance her body would reject it.

    Medicine

  • Researchers grew a cartilage graft on a collagen scaffold and kept it alive in a warm bath for three weeks.

    Science

  • A year after the knee graft he was jogging again, though the surgeon still banned court sports until spring.

    Fitness

  • Wartime surgeons pioneered the skin graft on injured pilots, photographing every stage of healing for the textbooks that followed.

    History

  • After the tendon graft the forward missed a full season, and the team refused to rush him back for the playoffs.

    Basketball

  • A printed scaffold lets a bone graft grow into the exact shape of the missing piece of a patient's jaw.

    Technology

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