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-plasty
a combining form with the meanings “molding, formation” “surgical repair, plastic surgery,” used in the formation of compound words: angioplasty; galvanoplasty; heteroplasty.
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| -plasty | |
| —n combining form | |
| indicating plastic surgery involving a bodily part, tissue, or a specified process: rhinoplasty; neoplasty | |
| [from Greek -plastia; see | |
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Plasty
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Word Origin & History
-plasty
comb. form meaning "act or process of forming, plastic surgery," from Gk. -plastia, from plastos "molded, formed" (see plaster).
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-plasty suff.
Molding or forming surgically; plastic surgery: dermatoplasty.
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