A patient is brought to the Emergency Department and then admitted inpatient with significant "road burn" wounds from a motorcycle accident. In several stages, the patient receives skin grafts from a compatible donor, another patient in the hospital. This is an example of the use of what type of graft?

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Allograft refers to the transplantation of cells, tissues, or organs to a recipient from a genetically non-identical donor of the same species. In this case, since the skin grafts come from another patient (a compatible donor but not the patient themselves), it is an example of an allograft.

A Patient Is Brought to the Emergency Department and Then