plastic surgery

Questions about plastic surgery

What does plastic surgery mean?

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

What is another word for plastic surgery?

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

plastic 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.