Skin grafts refer to a medical procedure where healthy skin is taken from one part of the body and surgically placed onto another area that has been injured or damaged. This helps the damaged area to heal and grow new skin. Full definition
People with the rare inherited disease also have frequent nosebleeds, as many as seven a day, that can become so severe that patients require skin grafts in their noses or even more desperate measures to lead normal lives. (sciencemag.org)
At the Harvard Medical School, Hiroki Ohzato and Anthony Monaco of the Harvard Medical School have succeeded in making mice accept skin grafts from a different strain of mouse — a tough test of transplant acceptance. (newscientist.com)
The next two months involved a half - dozen surgeries to remove dead skin and debris from the jagged wound where his leg had been severed, four inches below the knee; to take skin from his thigh for skin grafts; to build up the sound flesh around the ends of his bones and then stretch it for a strong, tight seal over the stump. (si.com)