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artificial skin

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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
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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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Reconstruction of burn scar of the upper extremities with artificial skin. Plast Reconstr Surg 2001; 108(2):378-384.
Patient Grahame Elsmore, 56, from Wednesbury, told how her how he is helping with artificial skin research after he was badly injured 21 years ago.
Natural and artificial skin end up changing places, interpenetrating, dissolving into each other and becoming blurred in pictorial fiction.
The unit has the latest dressing materials, artificial skin substitutes and surgical techniques, ensuring that we always remain on the cutting-edge of burn care developments.
An artificial skin graft called Matriderm was used for the first time to reconstruct the layers of her badly-damaged hand.
In conclusion, asiaticoside promotes skin cell behaviors involved in wound healing; and as a bioactive component of an artificial skin, may have therapeutic value.
He manages to nurse her back from the brink of death and becomes obsessed with trying to create an artificial skin which can return her to her
Other researchers are investigating depositing artificial skin on burn victims to promote healing and prevent infection.
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