reconstructive surgery

Questions about reconstructive surgery

What does reconstructive surgery mean?

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

What is another word for reconstructive surgery?

Close synonyms include plastic 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 reconstructive surgery a common word?

reconstructive 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.