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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.
Origin:
1830–40
1830–40
Related forms
plastic surgeon, noun
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World English Dictionary
| plastic surgery | |
| —n | |
| Also called: anaplasty the branch of surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic repair or re-formation of missing, injured, or malformed tissues or parts | |
| plastic surgeon | |
| —n | |
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
plastic surgery n.
Surgery to remodel, repair, or restore body parts, especially by the transfer of tissue.
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American Heritage
Science Dictionary
| plastic surgery
The branch of surgery that deals with the remodeling, repair, or restoration of body parts, especially by the transfer of tissue. |
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American Heritage
Cultural Dictionary
plastic surgery definition
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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Example sentences
Yet unlike much other plastic surgery it is no vanity-inspired whim.
Despite plastic surgery, her nose is crushed and her upper lip is permanently split.
Today's plastic surgery is going to seem tame compared to what's coming.
Kris doesn't want me to have plastic surgery on my face.
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