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.
Origin of plastic surgery
First recorded in 1830–40
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Related Words for plastic surgery
liposuction, face-lift, blepharoplasty, dermabrasion, dermatoplasty, eyelift, mammaplasty, mammoplasty, prosthetics, rhinoplastyExamples from the Web for plastic surgery
Contemporary Examples of plastic surgery
These three Asian nations all made it into the latest study of the top 10 most plastic-surgery dependent countries in the world.
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After she had her daughter, Big Ang caught the plastic-surgery bug.
Before she went on a plastic-surgery binge, Heidi had to tell her beau Spencer he might be a babydaddy.
He argues that it would be discriminatory to females who comprise 90 percent of all plastic-surgery patients.
plastic surgery
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