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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(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..
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Autoplasty means (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..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Use autoplasty where its definition matches the intended context.
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