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COSMETIC SURGERY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cosmetic surgery mean?
• COSMETIC SURGERY (noun)
The noun COSMETIC SURGERY has 1 sense:
1. plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised
Familiarity information: COSMETIC SURGERY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
cosmetic surgery; face lift; face lifting; facelift; lift; nip and tuck; rhytidectomy; rhytidoplasty
Context example:
some actresses have more than one face lift
Hypernyms ("cosmetic surgery" is a kind of...):
anaplasty; plastic surgery; reconstructive surgery (surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic reformation of tissue)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cosmetic surgery"):
nose job; rhinoplasty (cosmetic surgery to improve the appearance of your nose)
Context examples
Surgery may also include cosmetic surgery.
(Plastic surgeon, NCI Thesaurus)
Surgeons can reshape the appearance of body parts through cosmetic surgery.
(Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery, NIH)
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