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[aevi82]

Dear teachers,
could you help me to understand this:

'Take some leave,' he had said. 'Plenty of leave. Then get some new skin grafted over the back of that hand.

What does the last sentence mean?

Thank you.

[CP]

When someone has been burned or otherwise had skin damaged, it can be repaired by planting pieces of skin from elsewhere on the body right onto the damaged parts. It is called "grafting" the skin, and the part where the skin has been planted is called the "skin graft."

You can graft a part of a tree onto another tree and have it grow from there. That is where the term came from when some brilliant surgeon decided to try grafting skin on some poor patient.

Often the good skin comes from the back, but if it doesn't match the damaged skin, it will show. The back of the hand is different from the arm or the stomach, and the hand is always visible, so you probably want to graft from the back of the other hand.
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[aevi82]

Thanks a lot!
Viva plastic surgery!)))