autoplasty

== English == === Etymology === From auto- +‎ -plasty. === Pronunciation === === Noun === autoplasty (countable and uncountable, plural autoplasties) (medicine, surgery, dated) The process of artificially repairing lesions by taking a piece of healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to supply the deficiency caused by disease or wounds. In present-day contexts likelier to be called autotransplantation or autografting. ==== Related terms ==== autoplastic ==== Translations ==== ==== References ==== “autoplasty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.