graft
Tissue transplant procedure
Graft has two distinct origins yielding different meanings.
One graft is a shoot or bud inserted into another plant to grow there, or tissue transplanted surgically: a skin graft, a bone graft.
The verb means to attach in this way: graft a branch onto the rootstock.
The other graft is corrupt use of a position for personal gain, especially in politics: The mayor's administration was riddled with graft.
In British slang, graft also means hard work: It took years of graft to build the business.
Heir of prominence
- rootstockBase for grafted plants
- buddingDeveloping from an outgrowth
- propagationAct of spreading widely
- pruningCutting vegetation for health
cultivar · hybridization · cloning · graftage · compatibility · splice · cambium · stock
Corrupt payment for influence
- kickbackIllegal payment for services
- payoffCulminating benefit received
- embezzlementFraudulent taking of entrusted assets
- extortionObtaining through threats
backhander · sleaze · palm-greasing · nepotism · cronyism · malfeasance · venality · inducement
scion
Heir of prominence
- rootstockBase for grafted plants
- buddingDeveloping from an outgrowth
- propagationAct of spreading widely
pruning · cultivar · hybridization · cloning · graftage · compatibility · splice · cambium · stock · slip
bribery
Corrupt payment for influence
- kickbackIllegal payment for services
- payoffCulminating benefit received
- embezzlementFraudulent taking of entrusted assets
extortion · backhander · sleaze · palm-greasing · nepotism · cronyism · malfeasance · venality · inducement · patronage
transplant
Move tissue between bodies
rejection · implant · isograft · corneal · surgical · healing · integration · vascularization · mesh · burn
toil
Strenuous, prolonged effort
- laborStrenuous effort; also childbirth
- hard workSustained strenuous effort
- effortApplied energy toward goals
grind · slog · drudgery · sweat · hustle · elbow grease · diligence · industriousness · exertion · perseverance
- surgerysurgery, surgeon, surgeons, operation, incision
- financial fraudsecurities fraud, bank fraud, accounting fraud, defalcation, embezzler
- kidneyskidney, nephron, nephrons, glomerulus, glomeruli
- scamsscam, scams, fraud, frauds, swindle
- backupsbackup copy, backup file, backup drive, backup system, backup generator
- skin graftsdonor site, harvesting, meshing, dermatome, skin flap
grafthonesty
Truthfulness, sincerity
integrity · incorruptibility · probity · rectitude · transparency
- skin graftsSurgical wound covering procedure
- skin graftingTransplanting tissue to wounds
- bone graftTransplanted skeletal tissue
- bone graftingTransplanting skeletal tissue surgically
- graft rejectionImmune destruction of transplant
- tissue graftSurgically transferred organic material
graft-versus-host, grafts, grafting, grafted, grafter, grafters, xenograft, allograft, engraft