cheiloplasty

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek χείλος (kheílos) + -plasty

Noun

cheiloplasty (countable and uncountable, plural cheiloplasties)

(surgery) The creation from tissue of an artificial lip or part of a lip.

Related terms

cheiloplastic

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cheiloplasty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)