1. A reference to putting skin from one place to another part of the body: In surgical procedures, imbricated tissue is formed in similar ways as roof shingles.

Relating to an overlapping of a surgical repair in which one edge is sutured over the other instead of edge to edge, or in which a flat structure is repaired with parallel suture, or corset-like lines, in order to tighten it.

2. Etymology: from Latin imbricatus, from imbricare, "to cover with tiles"