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Noun
The future is personal Hair transplant excellence in 2025 isn’t measured by graft count or by shock factor.—Ascend Agency, Baltimore Sun, 21 May 2025 When to Contact Your Periodontist Though severe complications are rare, gum graft surgery carries risks.—Mark Gurarie, Health, 3 May 2025
Verb
With this method, stem cells are grafted together with the fat and may work quicker to develop these vascularization processes, resulting in better outcomes for the survival of fat cells.—Parizaad Khan Sethi, Allure, 2 May 2025 There’s a new head coach to hire, a top-six center to land and a lot of scoring skill to graft onto this roster.—Thomas Drance, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for graft
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Etymology
Noun (1) and Verb (1)
Middle English graffe, grafte, from Anglo-French greffe, graife stylus, graph, from Medieval Latin graphium, from Latin, stylus, from Greek grapheion, from graphein to write — more at carve
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