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- noun Plural form of
grafting .
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Examples
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Patients for whom a physician has recommended surgical hair transplantation will be glad to know that the treatment has evolved from implanting unsubtle plugs to extremely acute micro- and mini-graftings that replace one to three hairs at a time, creating a natural looking hairline.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2010
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Patients for whom a physician has recommended surgical hair transplantation will be glad to know that the treatment has evolved from implanting unsubtle plugs to extremely acute micro- and mini-graftings that replace one to three hairs at a time, creating a natural looking hairline.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2010
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Experimental protocols included total body X-ray treatment followed by marrow infusion, immunoparalysis by consecutive graftings, immunological enhancement or adaptation by prior exposure of the host or graft to antigen, matching of donor and recipient by red or white cell typing, and the use of drugs such as toluene and nitrogen mustard.
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In Renaissance humanism these innovative graftings of new interpretations on old trunks are very frequent.
RENAISSANCE HUMANISM NICOLA ABBAGNANO 1968
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I had more than a thousand graftings growing, some of them this high [indicating] which greatly depends upon the root system and the condition of the soil.
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He did not stop before his graftings; he passed the clump of petunias without giving them that all-embracing glance I know so well, the glance of the rewarded gardener.
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France rose, which being without stamens and pistils must be propagated by cuttings or graftings instead of by seeds.
Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study Thomas Washington Talley
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As it is a sincere scheme of individual opinion (though not of original opinion, being largely made up of graftings from a certain recognizable class of modern scholars), it could only be finally disposed of by following it up root and branch in nearly all its details, at the cost of writing a much larger book.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various
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In 1937, I made experimental graftings on native black walnut stocks of the Weschcke No. 4 butternut, a variety I found to be superior to hundreds of other native trees tested.
Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin Carl Weschcke 1933
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Although results proved that my methods averaged a slightly higher percentage of successful graftings in this latitude and for the type of work we were doing, his would nonetheless be superior in working over trees larger than four inches in diameter and having no lateral branches up to eight feet above ground, at which height it is most convenient to cut off a large hickory preparatory to working on it.
Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin Carl Weschcke 1933
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