Medical Dictionary

plastic surgery

noun

Medical Definition of PLASTIC SURGERY

:  a branch of surgery concerned with the repair, restoration, or improvement of lost, injured, defective, or misshapen parts of the body chiefly by transfer of tissue; also :  an operation performed for such a purpose

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