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"By the time I can take people out to where Hubble is looking, they won't be human anymore, by a long way."
- Larry Niven

Artigraft  
  Artificial skin graft.  

"How's your niece?" Verrick asked.

"She'll be alright," Cartwright said...

"It was her face Eleanor struck for?"

"They can fix her up with artigraft. It didn't get to her eyes; mostly her skin and hair..."

Technovelgy from Solar Lottery, by Philip K. Dick.
Published by Ace Books in 1955
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