Plan Treatment and Therapies Skin Grafting

Question 1

autograft

Answer 1

skin transplant taken from a different place on the patient’s body

Question 2

homograft (allograft)

Answer 2

skin transplant taken from another member of the patient’s species (homo - because it is from a similar species, allo - because it is from another person)

Question 3

heterograft

Answer 3

skin transplant taken from a species other than the patient’s

Question 4

xenograft

Answer 4

skin transplant taken from a species other than the patient’s