植皮 (zhí pí) — skin graft (procedure); grafted skin (tissue)

Definition

Medical term for a skin graft — both the surgical procedure and the grafted tissue itself. Used in clinical contexts like burn treatment and plastic surgery.

noun
skin graft (procedure)grafted skin (tissue)

Examples

  • 植皮。
    Yī shēng jiàn yì tā zuò zhí pí shǒu shù lái xiū fù shāng kǒu.
    The doctor recommended that he undergo skin graft surgery to repair the wound.
  • 植皮。
    Shāo shāng huàn zhě xū yào duō cì zhí pí cái néng wán quán huī fù.
    Burn patients need multiple skin grafts to fully recover.
  • 植皮。
    Qǔ pí hé zhí pí shì zhěng xíng wài kē de cháng guī cāo zuò.
    Skin harvesting and skin grafting are routine procedures in plastic surgery.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
动宾dòngbīnVerb + object

An action followed by what it acts on, fused into one word.

植zhígraft
皮pískin

植 means to graft and 皮 means skin, so the word names the act of grafting skin.

Characters in this word

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
木木mùtree
Sound part声符shēngfú
直
直zhí植zhí
Same sound today

植 is made from 木, a tree, and 直, which gives the sound.

Open 植 →

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

皮 shows a hand pulling fur off an animal pelt, with the pelt drawn at the upper left.

Open 皮 →

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