Medical

brephoplasty

A little-used term for the transplantation of tissue to an animal recipient from an embryo or fetus of the same species; from the Greek root, brephos, for embryo. It is not used in the mainstream working medical parlance—the preferred term modern equivalent is foetal or embryonic tissure transplantation.

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