GRAFTING

Jack's Reference Book for Home and Office : An Encyclopaedia of General Information: Medical Dictionary · 1909 · p. 2

consists in supplying small pieces of ekin from a healthy part and placing them on the surface of an open wound. The wound is then covered with a protective dre ing, and in a few days some of the grafts grow and help to covor the raw surface with new skin. [s. 371]