Artificial Skin

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Artificial Skin

Any synthetic material designed to replace skin lost through burns or trauma, which ideally would have the physicochemical properties of skin—e.g., optimal ‘wetting’ and ‘draping’—leading to adherence, decreased bacterial invasion and fluid loss, eliciting cellular and vascular invasion, and synthesising a dermal matrix while biodegrading the artificial graft

artificial skin

Critical care Any synthetic material designed to have the physicochemical properties of skin–eg, optimal 'wetting' and 'draping,' leading to adherence, ↓ bacterial invasion and fluid loss, eliciting cellular and vascular invasion, synthesizing a dermal matrix while biodegrading the artificial graft. See Burns, Dermagraft-TC, Integra Artificial Skin. Cf Split-thickness graft, Spray-on-skin.

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Apligraf burn therapy composite cultured skin Integra skin skin graft skin grafting split thickness graft spray-on skin			Byline: ANI London, Oct 9 (ANI): Artificial skin covering prosthetics and humanoid robots might resemble real skin to the 'T', but when touched the difference is apparent. Artificial skin can't dodge the human touch by Asian News International com THE SUN FARMER: THE TORY OF A SHOCKING ACCIDENT, A MEDICAL MIRACLE, AND A FAMILY'S LIFE-AND-DEATH DECISION tells of an Illinois farmer so badly burned in a tractor accident that only his feet were untouched--a tragedy which brought his wife a difficult decision: to allow him to die, or allow doctors to enshroud him in a cocoon of artificial skin. The Sun Farmer by The Bookwatch com THE SUN FARMER: THE TORY OF A SHOCKING ACCIDENT, A MEDICAL MIRACLE, AND A FAMILY'S LIFE-AND-DEATH DECISION tells of an Illinois farmer so badly burned in a tractor accident that only his feet were untouched--a tragedy which brought his wife a difficult decision: to allow him to die, or allow doctors to enshroud him in a cocoon of artificial skin. The Sun Farmer by Internet Bookwatch			artificial genitourinary sphincter Artificial Heart artificial heart valve artificial homologous insemination artificial impregnation artificial insemination artificial insemination-donor artificial insemination-husband artificial intelligence artificial kidney artificial labor artificial limb Artificial Liver Artificial Lung artificial menopause Artificial Organ artificial organs artificial pacemaker Artificial Pancreas artificial pneumothorax artificial radioactivity artificial respiration artificial rupture of membranes artificial saliva artificial selection Artificial Skin artificial somnambulism artificial stone artificial tears Artificial Turf artificial ventilation artificially acquired immunity Artiodactyla artiodactylid Artionema ARTIST ARTISTIC Artistic Temperament arts medicine ARTT Arum arum lily arumalon ARV Arvicola ARVO aryepiglottic aryepiglottic fold aryepiglottic muscle aryl aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase			artificial respiration artificial respiration Artificial Resuscitation Artificial retina Artificial Retina Component Chip Artificial rubber Artificial rubber artificial rupture of membranes artificial rupture of membranes artificial saliva artificial satellite artificial satellite artificial satellite artificial satellite Artificial satellites Artificial satellites Artificial satellites Artificial satellites Artificial Satellites of the Sun artificial scheelite Artificial Sea Water artificial selection artificial selection artificial selection artificial selection Artificial Sensing Techniques for Evaluating Quality Artificial silk Artificial silk Artificial sines Artificial ski slopes Artificial Skin artificial sky Artificial snow Artificial Social Intelligence Artificial Social Network Artificial Societies and Computational Markets Workshop Artificial Societies for Ambient Intelligence artificial somnambulism Artificial stone Artificial stone Artificial stone Artificial Structures Artificial Stupidity Artificial substitutes Artificial substitutes Artificial sugar Artificial sugar Artificial sweetener Artificial sweetener Artificial sweetener debate Artificial sweetener debate Artificial sweeteners Artificial sweeteners Artificial sweetner Artificial sweetner Artificial symbiosis Artificial symbiosis Artificial symbiosis Artificial symbiosis artificial t's Artificial Tan

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