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Heteroplastic transplantation
Transplantation of a part from one individual to another individual of the same or a closely related species.
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Heart transplantation
Surgical transplantation of the heart from a patient who died of trauma or a disease that left the heart intact and capable of functioning in the recipient. The only absolute contraindications are uncontrollable cancer or infection, irreversible pulmonary vascular disease, or a separate life-threatening disease; in general, however, patients over 65 years, those with severe…
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Hair transplantation
A surgical procedure for placing plugs of skin containing hair follicles from one body site to another. This time consuming technique is used to treat baldness.
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Fat transplantation
In cosmetic surgery, the movement of adipose tissue from one body site to another to augment structure, change body contours, or reduce skin wrinkling.
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Autoplastic transplantation
Transplantation of tissue from one part to another part of the same body.
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Autologous bone marrow transplantation
The harvesting and preservation of a patient’s own blood-forming cells, followed by their eventual reintroduction into a patient. The procedure may be used to treat a variety of cancers and blood disorders. Contemporary practice is to mobilize stem cells into the blood stream with growth factors, and then to collect and filter the blood by…
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Autologous transplantation
Transplantation of material from one location in the body to another site. An intervention in which an individual contributes their own blood or tissue for their own use.
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Allogeneic transplantation
Transplantation of material from a donor to another person.
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Pulmonary transpiration
The evaporation of water from the alveolar cells into the air in the lungs.
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Cutaneous transpiration
The insensible evaporation of water vapor through the skin.
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