aesthetic surgery
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aesthetic surgery (countable and uncountable, plural aesthetic surgeries)
- (medicine) Surgery which alters a person's physical appearance, performed not for health reasons but in order to increase his or her beauty or physical appeal; cosmetic surgery.
- 1978 October 23, “Living: The Unveiling of a New Ford”, in Time:
- Still, for those like Betty Ford who feel the need for outer rejuvenation, aesthetic surgery can be a godsend.
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cosmetic surgery — see cosmetic surgery
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- “aesthetic surgery”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.