English Explanatory Dictionary

white graft

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A hyperacute rejection of a transplant, such as a skin graft, such that vascularization doesn’t occur due to the arteries being occluded by preformed antibodies, resulting in infarction and requiring removal of the transplant.

Word forms

white graft white grafts

Etymology

From the anemia of the rejected transplant tissue.

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