skin grafting

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“In Italy, skin grafting had evolved as a peasant’s operation, linked culturally and technically to the farmer’s procedure of plant grafting.”

From New York Times • May 14, 2022

To save his hand, surgeons employed a wartime skin grafting technique known as a pedicled flap, which involved attaching it to his abdomen to help the skin tissue heal.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2021

Skin picking can lead to infections that require intravenous antibiotics and skin grafting.

From Slate • Aug. 22, 2018

Five days a week, they travel to Newton, where he goes into a hyperbaric chamber to heal stubborn wounds from the skin grafting.

From Washington Times • Sep. 11, 2015

You see, it was a peculiar kind of side-wipe; doesn't need much skin grafting.

From The Old Blood by Palmer, Frederick