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Heteroplastic

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het·er·o·plas·ty  (htr--plst)
n. pl. het·er·o·plas·ties
The surgical grafting of tissue obtained from one individual or species to another.

heter·o·plastic adj.


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Karl Gebhardt did heteroplastic transplantation experiments using whole limbs amputated from live prisoners--the prisoners deprived of a limb were killed by lethal injection.
 
 
 
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