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Meaning of HOMOPLASTY

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Ho"mo*plas`ty\, n. [Homo- + plasty.] (Biol.)
The formation of homologous tissues.
 
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Biology Dictionary
 
 Definition: The replacement during surgery of a damaged organ or damaged tissue in an individual by an allograft - a donor organ or tissue from a genetically dissimilar member of the same species. (Such a graft is also called a homoplastic graft).
 

 

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