regraft

regraft

English

Etymology

re- +‎ graft

Verb

regraft (third-person singular simple present regrafts, present participle regrafting, simple past and past participle regrafted)

1. (transitive) To graft again or anew.

Noun

regraft (plural regrafts)

1. A second or subsequent graft.
   • 2008 April 8, Nicholas Bakalar, “Vision: Study Sees Value in Older Cornea Donors”, in New York Times‎:

     Five-year graft survival rates —— defined as needing a regraft or having a cloudy cornea that compromised vision —— was 86 percent for the group of donors under 65 and exactly the same for the group older than 65.

Anagrams

• grafter