October 14, 2015 Board of Education, Schools. The Health and Wellness policy for the Poughkeepsie City School District has been revised and adopted by the Board of Education. To view the new policy, please click here or below.ctober 13, 2015 Announcements, High School. On Thursday, October 22, 2015 there will be free chili dinner served between 5:00pm and 7:00pm in the Poughkeepsie High School cafeteria. All Poughkeepsie City School District students and their parents are invited to join us.
graft noun. âº [C] a âpiece of âhealthy âskin or âbone âcut from one âpart of a person's âbody and used to ârepair another âdamaged âpart, or a âpiece âcut from one âliving âplant and âattached to another âplant so that it âgrows there: He has had a âskin graft on his âbadly âburned âarm.
Because of the need to close the donor site with stitches, the use of full-thickness skin grafts is limited by size and source site. Composite graftsâThis is a combination of skin and fat, skin and cartilage, or the middle layer of skin and fat. It is used in areas that require three-dimensionality, such as the nose. Composite grafts are often removed from the ear. The graft will be placed on the damaged site.