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US
/ˈɡɹæft/
]
[ UK /ɡɹˈɑːft/ ]
[ UK /ɡɹˈɑːft/ ]
VERB
-
cause to grow together parts from different plants
graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree - place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient
NOUN
- the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage
- the act of grafting something onto something else
- (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
How To Use graft In A Sentence
- Surgeons grafted tissue from her leg to the outside of her brain for protection.
- Hard graft and study of the score allowed him to master a wide repertoire without nationality kinships questioning his ability to conduct music from all periods.
- Charged they were that they worshipped an ass's head; which impious folly -- first fastened on the Jews by Tacitus, Hist., lib.v. cap. 1, in these words, "Effigiem animalis, quo monstrante errorem sitimque depulerant, penetrali sacravere" (having before set out a feigned direction received by a company of asses), which he had borrowed from Apion, a railing Egyptian of Alexandria [224] -- was so ingrafted in their minds that no defensative could be allowed. The Sermons of John Owen
- The obvious impact of these principles has been to graft the legal aid scheme on to the existing structure of private practice.
- One means of correcting this mistake is to graft a limb of an appropriate pollenizer (generally a variety of crabapple) every six trees or so. Pollination
- The company is headed by managing director Martin Baker and employs a workforce of 60 in Grafton Way, Basingstoke.
- recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine has raised a number of questions about the long term patency of endoscopically harvested saphenous veins that are collected and used for coronary artery bypass grafts. Medgadget
- The main ethical problems included the health risks for the transplant recipient (e.g., a substantial risk of hyperacute rejection and graft-versus-host disease), traditional animal ethics issues, concerns about informed consent (complicated by empirical uncertainties and the possibility of legally mandated life-long health surveillance), fair allocation of health care resources, and the public health issue that xenotransplantation would allow viruses to jump the species barrier into humans. Human/Non-Human Chimeras
- Three syngeneic animals and one animal with allograft had marked focal uptake of annexin V in a linear pattern corresponding to the left thoracotomy site.
- It was tough going out there but we won through with hard graft.
