abdominoplasty

1. 1.

   cosmetic surgery of the abdomen to remove wrinkles and tighten the skin over the stomach

   Synonymstummy tuck

   Broaderplastic surgery

Other forms of abdominoplasty

plural

abdominoplasties·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about abdominoplasty

What does abdominoplasty mean?

abdominoplasty means "cosmetic surgery of the abdomen to remove wrinkles and tighten the skin over the stomach".

How many syllables are in abdominoplasty?

abdominoplasty has 6 syllables: ab-do-mi-no-pla-sty. The stress falls on "no".

What is another word for abdominoplasty?

Close synonyms include tummy tuck. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is abdominoplasty a common word?

abdominoplasty is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.