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Allograft and Homograft are used interchangeably in the medical literature to describe a graft originating from a donor whose genetic material is not identical to that of the receiver but they both are of the same species (i.e. humans).

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What term is also known as a homograft?

allograft


What term is also known homograft?

Allograft


How does an allograft differ from an autograft?

The difference between an allograft and an autograft is where the human tissue comes from. An autograft is when a patients own tissue is used, and an allograft is when tissue from someone else is used in the surgery.


What is the difference bwtween homografts and autografts?

homograft: donor and recipient belong to the same species but with different genetic material. It is synonimous with allograft. autograft: donor site is in the same individual that is recipient (e.g. skin graft from thigh to face in one patient)


What term also means a homograft?

The term "homograft" is also known as an "allograft." Both terms refer to a tissue graft obtained from a donor of the same species as the recipient, but not genetically identical. This type of graft is commonly used in medical procedures, such as organ transplants and skin grafts.


What does allograft mean?

Allograft - Organs from non identical human beings


What is the different between an allograft and autograff?

An allograft is a transplant from another member of the same species ( human to human) while and autograft is a transplant from one area of a patient to another (skin graft from upper thigh to foot)


What is an allotransplant?

An allotransplant is another word for an allograft, a surgical transplant of tissue between genetically different individuals of the same species.


What is used in an allograft?

An allograft uses skin obtained from another human being, Donor skin from cadavers is frozen, stored, and available for use as allografts.


What are some nine letter words with 4th letter O and 6th letter R and 8th letter F?

According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 4 words with the pattern ---O-R-F-. That is, nine letter words with 4th letter O and 6th letter R and 8th letter F. In alphabetical order, they are: allograft autograft homograft xenograft


Example of allograft?

An allograft is a transplant that entails moving a tissue or organ from organism to another organism that shares the same species but has a different genotype. One example of an allograft would be an organ transplant from one human to any other human that is not the donor's identical twin.


What is the difference between allograft and autograft?

autograft is tissue taken from one part of a patient's body in order to repair or replace injured tissue in another part of the same patient's body. OR a tissue or organ that is grafted into a new position on the body of the individual from which it was removed. allograft is tissue taken from one patient (the donor) to be used in another, such as for a heart or kidney transplant. OR a tissue or organ obtained from one member of a species and grafted to a genetically dissimilar member of the same species.