| A surgical technique in which tissues, cells, or synthetic material, commonly from the same person, another individual, or an animal, are transferred to a recipient site. Grafts of skin and tissue fragments that are completely detached from their original source typically lack their own intrinsic blood supply and rely on the recipient site for vascular perfusion and survival. While solid organs are almost exclusively transplanted and skin and tissues are generally grafted, the terms graft and transplant are sometimes used interchangeably depending on the context and medical specialty. |
