-plasty


  1. a combining form with the meanings “molding, formation” “surgical repair, plastic surgery,” used in the formation of compound words: angioplasty; galvanoplasty; heteroplasty.

Origin of -plasty

1
<Greek -plastia.See -plast, -y3

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How to use -plasty in a sentence

  • I begun to have a suspicion the stuff was made of sawdust with plasty of Paris fur frostin'.

    The Spenders | Harry Leon Wilson

British Dictionary definitions for -plasty

-plasty

n combining form
  1. indicating plastic surgery involving a bodily part, tissue, or a specified process: rhinoplasty; neoplasty

Origin of -plasty

1
from Greek -plastia; see -plast

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