plastic surgery

English

Noun

plastic surgery (countable and uncountable, plural plastic surgeries)

Surgery to repair body parts, especially involving the transfer of tissue.
Cosmetic surgery for appearance.
- 2018 January 25, Amelia Gentleman, “Men-only clubs and menace: how the establishment maintains male power”, in the Guardian‎:
  There was no tedious self-righteousness on the night of the gala event. The charity auction invited bids for a night out at the Windmill Club (a lapdancing venue in Soho) and a course of plastic surgery, offered as an opportunity to “Add spice to your wife”

Usage notes

Formally, plastic surgery includes some types of reconstructive surgery and hand surgery, but in common use is it generally used to mean cosmetic surgery, with some pejorative connotations due to associations of plastic (“synthetic, artificial”).

Derived terms

plastic surgeon
plastic beauty

Translations

surgery involving the transfer of tissue

Arabic: جِرَاحَة تَجْمِيل‎ f (jirāḥat tajmīl)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 整容 (zing² jung⁴)
Mandarin: 整形外科 (zh) (zhěnɡxínɡ wàikē), 整容 (zh) (zhěngróng)
Finnish: plastiikkakirurgia (fi)
French: chirurgie plastique (fr) f
German: plastische Chirurgie f
Icelandic: lýtalækningar f pl

Italian: chirurgia plastica (it) f
Japanese: 整形外科 (せいけいげか, seikei geka), 形成外科 (けいせいげか, keisei geka)
Korean: 성형외과 (seonghyeong oegwa)
Portuguese: cirurgia plástica f
Romanian: chirurgie plastică (ro) f
Russian: пласти́ческая хирурги́я f (plastíčeskaja xirurgíja), пласти́ческая опера́ция (ru) f (plastíčeskaja operácija)
Spanish: cirugía plástica f
Swedish: plastikkirurgi (sv) c

cosmetic surgery

Chinese:
Cantonese: 整容 (zing² jung⁴)
Mandarin: 整容 (zh) (zhěngróng)
Czech: plastická chirurgie f
Finnish: plastiikkakirurgia (fi)