meloplasty
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek [Term?] (“an apple, a cheek”) + -plasty. Compare French méloplastie.
Noun
meloplasty (plural meloplasties)
- (surgery) The operation of restoring a cheek which has been wholly or partially destroyed.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for meloplasty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- plasmolyte