Definition

1. Noun:
   • Surgical repair using autologous tissue: A surgical procedure where tissue is taken from one part of a patient's own body and grafted to another part to repair damage or replace lost tissue.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • The surgeon performed an autoplasty to reconstruct the patient's nose using cartilage from the rib.
  • Autoplasty is often preferred over other grafts to minimize the risk of immune rejection.
  • The success of the autoplasty depended on the healthy tissue harvested from the donor site.

Advanced Usage

• As a medical term: The word is primarily used in medical, surgical, and clinical contexts. It is a technical term not commonly found in everyday conversation.
  • The burn unit specializes in complex autoplasty procedures.

Variants and Related Words

• Autograft (n): A more common synonym referring specifically to the tissue transplanted during an autoplasty.
  • The autograft healed well at the recipient site.
• Autologous (adj): Denoting something derived from the same individual.
  • The treatment used autologous stem cells.

Synonyms

• Autograft: Tissue transplanted from one part of the body to another in the same individual.
• Autotransplantation: The process of transplanting tissue or organs within the same person.

Notes on Meaning

• Specificity: specifically denotes the itself. The transplanted tissue is called an .
• Contrast with Other Procedures: It is distinct from (using synthetic material) and or (using tissue from another person of the same species).

Noun

1. surgical repair by using tissue from another part of the patient's own body
2. tissue that is taken from one site and grafted to another site on the same person
   • skin from his thigh replaced the burned skin on his arms