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autograft
autograft n. 
/ˈɔːtə(ʊ)ɡraft/, /ˈɔdəˌɡræft/, /ˈɑdoʊˌɡræft/, /ˈɑdəˌɡræft/ [after French auto-greffe (1871 or earlier)] Surgery a graft of skin or other tissue taken from the patient's own body; grafting of this type.
Brit. /ˈɔːtə(ʊ)ɡrɑːft/
, /ˈɔːtə(ʊ)ɡrɑːft//ˈɔːtə(ʊ)ɡraft/U.S. /ˈɔdoʊˌɡræft/
, /ˈɔdoʊˌɡræft//ˈɔdəˌɡræft//ˈɑdoʊˌɡræft//ˈɑdəˌɡræft/ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > transplanting and grafting operations > [noun] > a transplant or graft > from same individual
autograft1881
autotransplant1912
1881 C. Johnston in J. Ashhurst Internat. Encycl. Surg. I. 543 Letiévant..undertook the defence of zoo-epidermic grafts, from the dog for example, because auto-grafts were painful, and caused new wounds in the patient.
1955 Sci. News 35 104 Skin grafts are only permanently successful when the skin is taken from another area of the patient's own body—an autograft.
1990 Q. Jrnl. Med. 77 1176 (table) Total parathyroidectomy with autograft.
2008 A. Davidson Gargoyle (2009) ii. 16 In addition to homografts (the skin from human cadavers) I'd had autografts, skin from undamaged areas of my body, and porcine heterografts, skin from pigs.
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