plastic surgery

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Noun

plastic surgery (plural plastic surgeries)

1. Surgery, especially involving the transfer of tissue, to repair body parts.
2. Cosmetic surgery for appearance.

Usage notes

Formally, plastic surgery includes some types of reconstructive surgery and hand surgery, but in common use is it generally used to mean cosmetic surgery, with some pejorative connotations due to associations of plastic (“synthetic, artificial”).

Derived terms

• plastic surgeon
• plastic beauty

Translations

surgery involving the transfer of tissue

• Arabic: جراحة تجميل (ar) (jiraaHat tajmiil) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 整形外科 (cmn) (zhěnɡxínɡ wàikē), 整容 (cmn) (zhěngróng)

• Finnish: plastiikkakirurgia (fi)
• French: chirurgie plastique (fr) f
• German: plastische Chirurgie (de) f

• Italian: chirurgia plastica (it) f
• Japanese: 整形外科 (ja) (せいけいげか, seikei geka), 形成外科 (ja) (けいせいげか, keisei geka)
• Korean: 성형외과 (ko) (seonghyeong oegwa)
• Russian: пластическая хирургия (ru) (plastíčeskaja xirurgíja) f, пластическая операция (ru) (plastíčeskaja operácija) f
• Spanish: cirugía plástica (es) f

cosmetic surgery

• Czech: plastická chirurgie (cs) f
• French: chirurgie plastique (fr) f, chirurgie esthétique (fr) f, chirurgie cosmétique (fr) f

• Spanish: cirugía estética (es) f

See also

• -plasty