What's the difference between graft and grafter?

Graft


Definition:

  • (n.) A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.
  • (n.) A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
  • (n.) A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
  • (n.) To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.
  • (n.) To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
  • (n.) To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.
  • (n.) To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns.
  • (v. i.) To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
  • (2) These immunocytochemical studies clearly demonstrated that cells encountered within the fibrous intimal thickening in the vein graft were inevitably smooth muscle cell in origin.
  • (3) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
  • (4) On the basis of 180 interventions, they describe in detail the use of fibrin glue in myringo- and tympanoplasty for correct fixing of grafts.
  • (5) Graft life is even more prolonged with patch angioplasty at venous outflow stenoses or by adding a new segment of PTFE to bypass areas of venous stenosis.
  • (6) In dorsoventral (DV) reversed wings at both shoulder or flank level, the motor axons do not alter their course as they enter the graft.
  • (7) The article describes an unusual case with development of a right anterior mediastinal mass after bypass surgery with internal mammary artery grafts.
  • (8) In our experience DSA is a safe, specific means of following postoperative grafts and diagnosing their occlusion.
  • (9) Factors associated with higher incidence of rejection included loose sutures, traumatic wound dehiscence, and grafts larger than 8.5 mm.
  • (10) The result of this study demonstrates that both the "hat" and "inverted" type grafts are highly successful and satisfactory procedures.
  • (11) It is concluded that fibroblast replication is an important mechanism leading to the pathologic fibrosis seen in graft versus host disease and, by analogy, probably other types of immunologically mediated fibrosis.
  • (12) The in vivo approach consisted of interspecies grafting between quail and chick embryos.
  • (13) Attachment of the graft to the wound is similar with and without the addition of human basic fibroblast growth factor, a potent angiogenic agent, to the skin replacement before graft placement on wounds.
  • (14) A conduit of a diameter of 23 mm was made by hand with a glutaraldehyde preserved xenopericardial graft.
  • (15) The remaining grafts appeared to be incorporated securely, as determined by radiographic examination.
  • (16) Attempts were made to prolong the survival of the grafts by the use of cytotosine arabinoside, methylprednisolone, heparin and azathioprine.
  • (17) Grafts of intermediate thickness (M III) showed excellent clinical healing of the donor and the recipient site.
  • (18) It was recently demonstrated that MRL-lpr lymphoid cells transferred into lethally irradiated MRL- +mice unexpectedly failed to induce the early onset of lupus syndrome and massive lymphadenopathy of the donor, instead they caused a severe wasting syndrome resembling graft-vs-host (GvH) disease.
  • (19) Living nonrelated transplants and 0-haplotype matched transplants did well initially at 1-year graft survival but there was a decrease in graft survival in these transplant groups at 2 and 3 years.
  • (20) Fascia TM grafts atrophied in 35 of 43 ears (80%), and perichondrium atrophied in 8 of 20 ears (40%).

Grafter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting.
  • (n.) An instrument by which grafting is facilitated.
  • (n.) The original tree from which a scion has been taken for grafting upon another tree.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Across eight cask pumps, seven keg lines and three hand-pulled ciders, the Rook runs the gamut from exotic European imports (Opat's self-explanatory orange and mandarin Czech pils) to beers from lesser-spotted UK micros, such as Grafters and Jurassic Brewhouse.
  • (2) They are grafters who are proud of doing the "right thing".
  • (3) The existence of immune privilege in the brain and the newly acquired understanding of immunologic privilege in the eye may offer strategies by which neural grafters can achieve significantly greater graft acceptance.
  • (4) For years she was the disciplined grafter who failed four times to win a constituency seat in Westminster and Holyrood before finally triumphing in 2007 (she was elected to Holyrood in 1999 and 2003 on the regional list).
  • (5) Soon enough, however, it became clear this new deal of high pay and low welfare was not all it seemed: millions of the low-paid grafters he claimed to champion were going to lose out.
  • (6) According to reports, the chancellor’s autumn statement next week will include promises specifically targeting this notional group of modest grafters so beloved by politicians - now being referred to in Whitehall as “jams”.
  • (7) He records the extraordinary lives of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe who came to America, to work as retailers, as small time entrepreneurs, as grafters in the garment industry.
  • (8) And why should folk who don't toil be funded to live in homes that lowly grafters could never afford?
  • (9) Some captains want career-minded grafters, others want a more relaxed vibe.
  • (10) That is not to suggest Beckham deserves quite the same billing as that magical pair – he was always more grafter than genius – though he does deserve a lot more credit than he generally receives.
  • (11) Davidson told her party's annual conference in Edinburgh that the Tories wanted to appeal again to aspirational working-class voters – "the everyday grafters of Scotland" – so her party would use new financial powers at Holyrood to cut income taxes.
  • (12) He promised a tough fight to recast a new capitalism built around British values that reward the hard-working grafters and producers in business, and not the asset-stripping "predators".
  • (13) I have met plenty of English Brexit supporters who have expressed worries about immigration while paying warm tribute to Poles, Czechs and people from the Baltic states as admirable “grafters”, and assets to the places where they have settled.
  • (14) Sadiq is a grafter, he is someone who gets on with people, he is someone who is pragmatic when he needs to be and he certainly has a vision for this city.” What Labour can learn from my victory: we can’t ignore the things most voters want | Sadiq Khan Read more The Khan victory, trouncing the Tory candidate Zac Goldsmith, who had tried to paint his opponent as a dangerous “radical” and to divide Londoners of different faiths and races , has been hailed as evidence of a multicultural capital that has the self-confidence to be inclusive and tolerant.
  • (15) My generation is the result of a generation of grafters.
  • (16) Accusing David Cameron of being the last gasp of an old system, he said the country was crying out for a society in which the hard-working grafters are rewarded and the closed circles at the top of society are broken up.
  • (17) Yet back in the real world, or rather the place that does not have to bear very much reality at all, the past few days have yielded the usual spread of self-effacing hard grafters.

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