SURGICAL FLAPS

Domain	Definition
Health	Tongues of tissue (skin and subcutaneous tissue, sometimes including muscle) cut away from the underlying parts but attached at one end. They retain their own blood supply during transfer to the new site. They are used in plastic surgery for filling a defect in a neighboring region. The concept includes pedicled flaps, rotation flaps, tube flaps, etc. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: SURGICAL FLAPS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-f-g-i-l-l-p-r-s-s-u"
	-4 letters: scapulars, spurgalls.
	-5 letters: capsular, galliass, glassful, lugsails, pailfuls, pailsful, piacular, piraguas, scapular, scapulas, spicular, spirulas, spurgall, surgical.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.