RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reconstructive surgery mean? 

• RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY (noun)
  The noun RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY has 1 sense:

1. surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic reformation of tissue

  Familiarity information: RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic reformation of tissue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

anaplasty; plastic surgery; reconstructive surgery

Hypernyms ("reconstructive surgery" is a kind of...):

operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reconstructive surgery"):

abdominoplasty; tummy tuck (cosmetic surgery of the abdomen to remove wrinkles and tighten the skin over the stomach)

autoplasty (surgical repair by using tissue from another part of the patient's own body)

cosmetic surgery; face lift; face lifting; facelift; lift; nip and tuck; rhytidectomy; rhytidoplasty (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)

corneal graft; corneal transplant; keratoplasty (a surgical procedure in which part or all of a damaged or diseased cornea is replaced by healthy corneal tissue from a donor)

lipectomy; selective lipectomy (plastic surgery involving the breakdown and removal of fatty tissue)

mastopexy (plastic surgery to lift or reshape the breasts)

neuroplasty (plastic surgery of the nerves)

otoplasty (reconstructive surgery of the auricle of the external ear)

phalloplasty (reconstructive surgery on the penis to repair congenital abnormality or injury)

proctoplasty; rectoplasty (reconstructive surgery of the anus or rectum)

 Context examples 

Plastic and reconstructive surgery may help the person's appearance.

(Craniofacial Abnormalities, NIH)

Hirudotherapy is mainly used in trauma and plastic and reconstructive surgery to salvage tissue flaps and skin grafts whose viability is threatened by venous congestion.

(Hirudotherapy, NCI Thesaurus)