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plastic surgery

noun

  1. 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.


plastic surgery

noun

  1. the branch of surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic repair or re-formation of missing, injured, or malformed tissues or parts Also calledanaplasty
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plastic surgery

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

plastic surgery

  1. 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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Derived Forms

  • plastic surgeon, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • plastic surgeon noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of plastic surgery1

First recorded in 1830–40
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As Inae Oh noted in Mother Jones, most people who get plastic surgery seek subtlety, but Mar-a-Lago face is "ridiculously blunt."

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“Everyone kept making strange comments about my breasts, wanting to know whether or not I’d had plastic surgery.”

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In multiple articles about Brown, the Daily Mail features negative social media comments about Brown’s appearance and input from aestheticians about plastic surgery.

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Trachtenberg hit back in January 2024 saying that she was “happy and healthy” and had never had plastic surgery, but was simply aging.

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Anderson has always been seen to embody a look that rose to prominence in the 90s - skinny, blonde, and enhanced by plastic surgery.

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