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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In surgery, the operation of grafting on an ulcer a piece of skin from another part of the patient or from another person, in order to further the healing process.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) The act or process of repairing lesions made by ulcers, especially by a plastic operation.

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