plastic surgery
noun1
Surgery that is performed on the restoration, reconstruction or alteration of the human body.
- There was no tedious self-righteousness on the night of the gala event. The charity auction invited bids for a night out at the Windmill Club (a lapdancing venue in Soho) and a course of plastic surgery, offered as an opportunity to “Add spice to your wife”2018 January 25, Amelia Gentleman, “Men-only clubs and menace: how the establishment maintains male power”, in the Guardian:
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Cosmetic surgery that is performed for appearance.
- Derived terms
- plastic beauty, plastic surgeon
- Related terms
- -plasty