regraft
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Verb[edit]
regraft (third-person singular simple present regrafts, present participle regrafting, simple past and past participle regrafted)
- (transitive) To graft again or anew.
Noun[edit]
regraft (plural regrafts)
- A second or subsequent graft.
- 2008 April 8, Nicholas Bakalar, “Vision: Study Sees Value in Older Cornea Donors”, in New York Times[1]:
- Five-year graft survival rates — defined as needing a regraft or having a cloudy cornea that compromised vision — was 86 percent for the group of donors under 65 and exactly the same for the group older than 65.