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GRAFT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of grafting something onto something else

Synonyms:

graft; grafting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("graft" is a kind of...):

affixation; attachment (the act of attaching or affixing something)

Derivation:

graft (cause to grow together parts from different plants)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage

Synonyms:

bribery; graft

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("graft" is a kind of...):

felony (a serious crime (such as murder or arson))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "graft"):

barratry (the crime of a judge whose judgment is influenced by bribery)

commercial bribery (bribery of a purchasing agent in order to induce the agent to enter into a transaction)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient

Synonyms:

graft; transplant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("graft" is a kind of...):

animal tissue (the tissue in the bodies of animals)

Domain category:

surgery (the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "graft"):

autograft; autoplasty (tissue that is taken from one site and grafted to another site on the same person)

allograft; homograft (tissue or organ transplanted from a donor of the same species but different genetic makeup; recipient's immune system must be suppressed to prevent rejection of the graft)

heterograft; xenograft (tissue from an animal of one species used as a temporary graft (as in cases of severe burns) on an individual of another species)

Derivation:

graft (place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient

Synonyms:

graft; transplant

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "graft" is one way to...):

enter; infix; insert; introduce (put or introduce into something)

"Graft" entails doing...:

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

graft ((surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient)

grafting (the act of grafting something onto something else)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to grow together parts from different plants

Example:

graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree

Synonyms:

engraft; graft; ingraft

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "graft" is one way to...):

conjoin; join (make contact or come together)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something to somebody

Derivation:

graft; grafting (the act of grafting something onto something else)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Undifferentiated tissue; a term used in tissue culture, grafting, and wound healing.

(Callus, Food and Drug Administration)

After a third-degree burn, you need skin or synthetic grafts to cover exposed tissue and encourage new skin to grow.

(Burns, NIH: National Institute of General Medical Sciences)

A direct cytotoxic T-cell attack on graft cells can be made only by T cells that recognize the graft MHC molecules directly.

(Allograft Rejection Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

"That beats hard graft," he exulted.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In Spain, almost all watermelon are grown from grafted plants.

(Grafting helps pepper plants deal with drought, SciDev.Net)

The study found that CCZ blocked the early stage of HCV infection likely by impairing the ability of the virus to enter human liver cells grafted in the mice.

(Allergy drug inhibits hepatitis C, NIH)

A graft transferred from a donor of one species to a recipient of the same species but different genetic makeup.

(Allograft, NCI Thesaurus)

It is used in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation to prevent graft vs host disease by eliminating T cells via antibody dependent cell cytotoxicity in vivo.

(Campath-1G, NCI Thesaurus)

The first spray is made of molecularly grafted polymers, specifically polydimethylsiloxane silicone, as resembling human hairs — though vastly thinner — once it has dried on the target surface, which makes the surface very smooth.

(Materials scientists invent new coating for self-cleaning, water-efficient toilets, Wikinews)

The spinach leaf might be better suited for a highly vascularized tissue, like cardiac tissue, whereas the cylindrical hollow structure of the stem of Impatiens capensis (jewelweed) might better suit an arterial graft.

(Human Heart Cells Grown on Spinach Leaves, VOA News)