plastic surgery

plastic surgery   n.  Surgery to remodel, repair, or restore body parts, especially by the transfer of tissue. plastic surgeon n.

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.

Main Entry: plastic surgery
Function: noun
: a branch of surgery concerned with the repair, restoration, or improvement of lost, injured, defective, or misshapen parts ofthe body chiefly by transfer of tissue; also : an operation performed for such a purpose

plastic surgery n.
Surgery to remodel, repair, or restore body parts, especially by the transfer of tissue.

plastic surgery   The branch of surgery that deals with the remodeling, repair, or restoration of body parts, especially by the transfer of tissue.