anaplasty

Other forms of anaplasty

plural

anaplasties·

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 anaplasty

What does anaplasty mean?

anaplasty means "surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic reformation of tissue".

How many syllables are in anaplasty?

anaplasty has 4 syllables: a-na-pla-sty. The stress falls on "na".

What is another word for anaplasty?

Close synonyms include plastic surgery, reconstructive surgery. 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 anaplasty a common word?

anaplasty is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.