plastic surgery
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- noun
- /ˈplæstɪk ˈsɜrdʒəri/
- Specialized
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cirugía plástica
- After her accident, she needed plastic surgery to reconstruct her facial features.
- plastic surgery procedures
- cosmetic plastic surgery
- facial plastic surgery
Like there's no way to become, you know, prettier except for plastic surgery.
- Like there's no way to become, you know, prettier except for plastic surgery.
- Not only in plastic surgery and reconstructive surgery, but also in sex change surgery.
- He didn't want like a super like plastic surgery nose.
- He starts showing pictures of his body after like mid post plastic surgery.
Examples
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For the last decade cosmetic plastic surgery has out grossed every other medical procedure, bar none, by several thousand percent.
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Let's face it, there's a growing popularity of plastic surgery just to improve one's appearance.
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Do this, Max, are you thinking about getting plastic surgery in the few years?
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So I, when I think of plastic surgery, well, I know nothing about it.
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You get plastic surgery like we talked about.
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Mum is against plastic surgery.
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There has been a recent boom in plastic surgery since the pandemic.
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At one time, they had told me in the hospital that plastic surgery could eventually work wonders.
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But you get to blend both worlds for me because I have plenty of questions about plastic surgery and being a doctor.
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Without plastic surgery, he wouldn't last five minutes on this case.
Synonyms
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An operation that fixes body parts so they look and work better after injury or disease
How Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun combines 'plastic' and 'surgery' in a way that gives a partial clue: 'plastic' (malleable/shapable) suggests altering or reshaping and 'surgery' indicates an operation, so learners could infer it involves altering the body. However, the everyday sense of 'plastic' as a synthetic material can mislead, and the specific scope (reconstructive vs cosmetic) and etymological sense are not fully predictable without prior exposure, so it is only partly transparent.
Etymology
Plastic surgery comes from an old word: plastic once meant 'to shape' or 'to mold', not the modern plastic material. Think of a surgeon shaping skin like an artist shapes clay, and that's why plastic surgery means operations to repair or reshape the body.