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plastic surgery
noun
- the branch of surgery dealing with the repair or replacement of malformed, injured, or lost organs or tissues of the body, chiefly by the transplant of living tissues.
plastic surgery
noun
- the branch of surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic repair or re-formation of missing, injured, or malformed tissues or parts Also calledanaplasty
plastic surgery
- The branch of surgery that deals with the remodeling, repair, or restoration of body parts, especially by the transfer of tissue.
plastic surgery
- Surgery that repairs or reconstructs a body part. Plastic surgery is used to correct physical defects and to rebuild parts of the body that have been damaged by trauma or disease. Some examples of plastic surgery are breast reconstruction for women who have undergone a mastectomy and skin grafting for burn victims.
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Derived Forms
- plastic surgeon, noun
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Other Words From
- plastic surgeon noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of plastic surgery1
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Example Sentences
He was also a charismatic, telegenic speaker with a face improved by plastic surgery several years earlier.
Internet chatter rose to a deafening roar as speculation began about what—plastic surgery?
One local says, “A lot of people are hoping she will just stop the plastic surgery now she is finally pregnant.”
As with all plastic surgery, the desired effect may not be worth the risks.
Claire Leeson, you see, had spent more than $30,000 on plastic surgery in a quest to look more like Kim Kardashian.
By plastic surgery and other means the disfigured mass is shaped.
Are you game for a little plastic surgery—just enough to change your looks again, with new forged papers?
Rhī′noplast, one who undergoes this operation; Rhī′noplasty, plastic surgery of the nose.
All he had to do was snatch Danson, work a little plastic surgery on you and put you in Nick Dansons place.
In bonegrafting, plastic surgery, dentistry and nose and throat surgery the application of a 10 per cent.
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