A graft is a piece of healthy skin or bone, or a healthy organ, which is attached to a damaged part of your body by a medical operation in order to replace it. I am having a skin graft on my arm soon
If you graft one idea or system on to another, you try to join one to the other. The Japanese tried to graft their own methods on to this different structure
A type of access for haemodialysis The graft is a small plastic tube that connects an artery to a vein It is inserted into the arm or leg by a surgeon Haemodialysis needles are inserted into the graft, which can be used many hundreds of times
" 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 cause to grow together parts from different plants; "graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree
{i} portion of a plant inserted into the stem of another (Horticulture); portion of tissue which has been surgically transplanted from one place to another; act of grafting; illegal or dishonest acquisition of money
by dishonest or unjust means, as by actual theft or by taking advantage of a public office or any position of trust or employment to obtain fees, perquisites, profits on contracts, legislation, pay for work not done or service not performed, etc
Tissue taken from one person (donor) and transferred to another person (recipient) or taken from one part of a person's body and transferred to another part of the same person's body
A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit
Woody species are grafted when a section cut from the stem of one plant is grafted onto the stem of another in such a way that the cambium of the two plants meet The cambiums will grow into one another, allowing water and nutrients to flow back and forth between the two plants Most often, it is a stem (scion) that is grafted to a rootstock The rootstock can serve to make the scion resistant to soil borne disease or to control its size (dwarf varieties )
{f} inserted a portion of a plant into the stem of another (Horticulture); surgically transplant a portion of tissue from one place to another; illegally or dishonestly acquire money
Transplanted tissue from one area of the body to another (As in use of a saphenous vein graft from the leg to bypass a coronary artery blockage during coronary artery bypass surgery)
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 cause to grow together parts from different plants; "graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree
A kind of mirrored sheet (q v ) that represents a host window, typically a root window The graft is where the CLIM window hierarchy is "spliced" onto that of the host system The graft maintains screen invariants, such as the number of pixels per inch
Any tissue or organ that is implanted or transplanted, including a section of a blood vessel used to make a detour around a blocked artery, such as during a coronary artery bypass graft
If a part of one plant or tree is grafted onto another plant or tree, they are joined together so that they will become one plant or tree, often in order to produce a new variety. Pear trees are grafted on quince rootstocks
A tissue or organ that is removed and placed somewhere else If the graft is from one person to themselves (for example, a hair transplant for bald men where their own hair is moved from the back of the head to the top), it is called an "autograft " If the graft is between identical twins, it is called an "isograft" (this kind of graft is not rejected) If the graft is between members of the same species (for example, between father and son), the graft is called an "allograft " If the graft is between different species (for example, a heart valve graft from a pig to a human), it is called a "xenograft" (pronounced ZEE-no-graft)
In politics, graft is used to refer to the activity of using power or authority to obtain money dishonestly. another politician accused of graft. In horticulture, the act of placing a portion of one plant (called a bud or scion) into or on a stem, root, or branch of another (called the stock) in such a way that a union forms and the partners continue to grow. Grafting is used for various purposes: to repair injured trees, produce dwarf trees and shrubs, strengthen plants' resistance to certain diseases, retain varietal characteristics, adapt varieties to adverse soil or climatic conditions, ensure pollination, produce multifruited or multiflowered plants, and propagate certain species (such as hybrid roses) that can be propagated in no other way. In theory, any two plants that are closely related botanically and that have a continuous cambium can be grafted. Grafts between species of the same genus are often successful and between genera occasionally so, but grafts between families are nearly always failures
If a piece of healthy skin or bone or a healthy organ is grafted onto a damaged part of your body, it is attached to that part of your body by a medical operation. The top layer of skin has to be grafted onto the burns
(ParentKey As String, Dictionary As GlabDictionary)Copies the values from the supplied dictionary into this dictionary, rooted at the given ParentKey In this sense, it is much like grafting a branch onto the tree at a given point Only keyed items in the supplied dictionary that are paths (e g , begin with the solidus '/' path separator character) are copied The supplied ParentKey should not end with a path separator character This method performs an operation that is the inverse of the Splice method; this method performs an operation somewhat similar to the Import method
Healthy skin, bone, or other tissue taken from one part of the body and used to replace diseased or injured tissue removed from another part of the body