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Plastic surgery is a specialty that uses surgical techniques to improve the appearance and function of patients' bodies (Johnson D. Whitworth IH. Recent developments in plastic surgery. [Review] [24 refs] [Journal Article. Review] BMJ. 325(7359):319-22, 2002 Aug 10). Some of these operations are called cosmetic, and others - including nearly all of the operations that plastic surgeons themselves hold as the highest achievements within their profession, are called reconstructive. Descriptions of plastic surgery aimed towards a lay audience that depict reconstructive plastic surgery and cosmetic plastic surgery as two entirely different fields within a broader surgical specialty are misleading. A facelift performed to tighten the normal skin of a seventy-year old is called a cosmetic surgery procedure because it is only aimed to provide beauty. Copyright Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ for details. Source: Wikipedia, Plastic surgery (Wikipedia)

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Plastic surgery
Part Display Name
Plastic surgery
Part Type
Method (Describes the method by which the test was performed)
Created On
2003-11-10
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Plastic surgery

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Language Variants Get Info

TagLanguageTranslation
nl-NLDutch (Netherlands)plastische chirurgie
it-ITItalian (Italy)Chirurgia plastica
fr-BEFrench (Belgium)Chirurgie plastique
de-ATGerman (Austria)Plastische Chirurgie
Synonyms: Plastische, Rekonstruktive und Ästhetische Chirurgie
zh-CNChinese (China)成形外科学
Synonyms: 成形外科;整形外科;整形外科学;整形手术
el-GRGreek (Greece)Πλαστική χειρουργική
Synonyms: Πλαστική χειρουργική