cosmetic surgery

Questions about cosmetic surgery

What does cosmetic surgery mean?

cosmetic surgery means "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".

What is another word for cosmetic surgery?

Close synonyms include face lift, facelift, lift, face lifting, rhytidectomy. 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 cosmetic surgery a common word?

cosmetic surgery 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.