1.
[syn: autograft, autoplasty]
2. surgical repair by using tissue from another part of the patient's own body;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Autoplasty \Au"to*plas`ty\, n. [Auto- + -plasty.] (Surg.)
The process of artificially repairing lesions by taking a
piece of healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to
supply the deficiency caused by disease or wounds.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
autoplasty
n 1: tissue that is taken from one site and grafted to another
site on the same person; "skin from his thigh replaced the
burned skin on his arms" [syn: autograft, autoplasty]
2: surgical repair by using tissue from another part of the
patient's own body