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Grafting or graftage is a horticultural technique whereby tissues of plants are joined so as to continue their growth together.

A heart transplant, or a cardiac transplant, is a surgical transplant procedure performed on patients with end-stage heart failure or severe coronary artery disease when other medical or surgical treatments have failed.

A fistulotomy is the surgical opening of a fistulous tract.

Foraminotomy is a medical operation used to relieve pressure on nerves that are being compressed by the intervertebral foramina, the passages through the bones of the vertebrae of the spine that pass nerve bundles to the body from the spinal cord.

Foreskin restoration is the process of expanding the skin on the penis to reconstruct the foreskin, which has been removed by circumcision or other injury.