Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun plastic_surgery

1 sense of plastic surgery

Sense 1
plastic surgery, reconstructive surgery, anaplasty -- (surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic reformation of tissue)
       => operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process -- (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery")