plastic surgery

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Noun

plastic surgery (countable and uncountable, plural plastic surgeries)

1. Surgery to repair body parts, especially involving the transfer of tissue.
2. Cosmetic surgery for appearance.
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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: جِرَاحَةْ تَجْمِيل f (jirāḥat tajmīl)
• Armenian: պլաստիկ վիրաբուժություն (plastik virabužutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: estetik cərrahiyə
• Basque: kirurgia plastiko
• Belarusian: пластычная хірургія f (plastyčnaja xirurhija)
• Bengali: প্লাস্টিক সার্জারি (plasṭik śarjari)
• Bulgarian: пластична хирургия f (plastična hirurgija)
• Catalan: cirurgia plàstica f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 整容 (zing² jung⁴)

  Mandarin: 整形外科 (zh) (zhěngxíng wàikē), 整容 (zh) (zhěngróng)

• Czech: plastická chirurgie f
• Dutch: plastische chirurgie (nl) f
• Esperanto: plastia kirurgio
• Estonian: plastikakirurgia
• Finnish: plastiikkakirurgia (fi)
• French: chirurgie plastique (fr) f, chirurgie esthétique (fr) f
• Galician: cirurxía plástica (gl) f
• Georgian: პლასტიკური ოპერაცია (ṗlasṭiḳuri oṗeracia), პლასტიკური ქირურგია (ṗlasṭiḳuri kirurgia)
• German: plastische Chirurgie f
• Greek: πλαστική χειρουργική f (plastikí cheirourgikí)
• Hebrew: ניתוח פלסטי (he)
• Hindi: प्लास्टिक सर्जरी (plāsṭik sarjarī)
• Hungarian: plasztikai sebészet (hu)
• Icelandic: lýtalækningar f pl
• Indonesian: bedah plastik (id)
• Irish: máinliacht phlaisteach
• Italian: chirurgia plastica (it) f
• Japanese: 整形外科 (ja) (せいけいげか, seikei geka), 形成外科 (ja) (けいせいげか, keisei geka)
• Kannada: ಪ್ಲ್ಯಾಸ್ಟಿಕ್ ಸರ್ಜರಿ (kn) (plyāsṭik sarjari)
• Kapampangan: operanan f
• Kazakh: пластикалық хирургия (plastikalyq xirurgiä)
• Korean: 성형외과 (seonghyeong'oegwa)
• Latvian: plastiskā ķirurģija f
• Macedonian: пластична хирургија f (plastična hirurgija)
• Malay: pembedahan plastik (ms)
• Malayalam: പ്ലാസ്റ്റിക് സർജറി (plāsṟṟikŭ saṟjaṟi)
• Norwegian: kosmetisk kirurgi
• Persian: جراحی پلاستیک
• Polish: plastyka (pl) f, chirurgia plastyczna (pl) f
• Portuguese: cirurgia plástica (pt) f
• Romanian: chirurgie plastică (ro) f
• Russian: пласти́ческая хирурги́я (ru) f (plastíčeskaja xirurgíja), пласти́ческая опера́ция (ru) f (plastíčeskaja operácija)
• Serbo-Croatian: plastična kirurgija f
• Sinhalese: ප්ලාස්ටික් සැත්කම් (plāsṭik sætkam)
• Slovak: plastická chirurgia f
• Slovene: plastična kirurgija f
• Spanish: cirugía plástica (es) f
• Swedish: plastikkirurgi (sv) c, plastik (sv) c
• Turkish: plastik cerrahi (tr)
• Ukrainian: пластична хірургія f (plastyčna xirurhija)
• Urdu: پلاسٹک سرجری
• Uzbek: plastik jarrohlik
• Vietnamese: phẫu thuật thẩm mỹ

cosmetic surgery

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 整容 (zing² jung⁴)

  Mandarin: 整容 (zh) (zhěngróng)

• Czech: plastická chirurgie f
• Danish: plastikkirurgi
• Finnish: plastiikkakirurgia (fi)
• French: chirurgie plastique (fr) f, chirurgie esthétique (fr) f, chirurgie cosmétique f
• Georgian: პლასტიკური ქირურგია (ṗlasṭiḳuri kirurgia), კოსმეტიკური ქირურგია (ḳosmeṭiḳuri kirurgia), ესთეტიკური ქირურგია (esteṭiḳuri kirurgia)
• Italian: chirurgia plastica (it) f, chirurgia estetica f
• Kapampangan: ritoki f
• Kazakh: пластикалық ота (plastikalyq ota)
• Malay: pembedahan plastik (ms)
• Portuguese: cirurgia plástica (pt) f, plástica (pt) f
• Romanian: chirurgie estetică f
• Spanish: cirugía estética f
• Swedish: plastikkirurgi (sv) c, plastik (sv) c

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Translations to be checked

• Irish: ^{(please verify)} máinliacht athdheilbhithe f, ^{(please verify)} máinliacht phlaisteach f

See also

• -plasty