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allograft (homograft) |
-a temporary skin graft taken from another human, usually a cadaver, in order to cover a large burned area |
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Autograft |
-a permanent skin graft taken from a donor site on the patient's own body |
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Donor Site |
-a site where healthy skin is taken and used as a graft |
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Escharotomy |
-a surgical procedure that opens or removes eschar from a burn site to reduce tension on a surrounding structure, relieve pressure from interstitial edema, and subsequently enhance circulation |
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Full-thickness graft |
-a skin graft that contains the dermis and epidermis |
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Heterograft (xenograft) |
-a temporary skin graft taken from another species |
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Mesh graft |
-a skin graft that is altered to create a mesh-like pattern in order to cover a larger surface area
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Recipient Site |
- a site that has been burned and requires a graft |
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Sheet graft |
- a skin graft that is transferred directly from the unburned donor site to the prepared recipient site |
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Split-thickness graft |
-a skin graft that contains only a superficial layer of the dermis in addition to the epidermis |
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Z-plasty |
-a surgical procedure to eliminate a scar contracture -incision in shape of a Z allows the contracture to change configuration and lengthen the scar |
