autoplasty

1. 1.

   tissue that is taken from one site and grafted to another site on the same person

   “skin from his thigh replaced the burned skin on his arms”

   Synonymsautograft

   Broadergraft
2. 2.

   surgical repair by using tissue from another part of the patient's own body

   Broaderplastic surgery

Other forms of autoplasty

plural

autoplasties·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about autoplasty

What does autoplasty mean?

autoplasty means "tissue that is taken from one site and grafted to another site on the same person". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in autoplasty?

autoplasty has 4 syllables: au-to-pla-sty. The stress falls on "to".

What is another word for autoplasty?

Close synonyms include autograft. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is autoplasty a common word?

autoplasty is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.