Surgical terms
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| plastic surgery | Repair or reconstruction (as of the skin) by means of surgery.
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| skin graft | Placement of fresh skin over a damaged area.
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| autograft | Skin graft using skin from one’s own body
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| allograft | Skin graft using donor skin from one person to another; homograft.
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| homograft | Skin graft using donor skin from one person to another; allograft
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| heterograft | Skin graft using donor skin from one species to another; xenograft.
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| xenograft | Skin graft using donor skin from one species to another; heterograft.
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| cryosurgery | Surgery that removes tissue by freezing it with liquid nitrogen; removal or destruction of tissue using cold temperatures.
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| dermabrasion | Removal of wrinkles, scars, tattoos, and other marks by scraping with brushes or emery papers.
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| debridement | Removal of dead tissue from a wound.
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| curettage | Removal of tissue from an area, such as a wound, by scraping.
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| cauterize | To apply heat to an area to cause coagulation and stop bleeding.
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| fulguration | Destruction of tissue using electric sparks
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| biopsy | Excision of tissue for microscopic examination.
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| Mohs’ [mōz] surgery | After Frederic Edward Mohs (1910-1979), US surgeon; removal of thin layers of malignant tissue until nonmalignant tissue is found.
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