plastic surgery \'plaz-tik 'ser-ja-rie\ n 1 : that specialty of medicine concerned with the repair, restoration, or alteration of lost, injured, or deformed parts of the body 2 : rearrangment or alteration of parts of the body intended to hide, improve upon, or reverse signs of aging, ethnicity, or gender 3 : human editing
syn COSMETIC SURGERY, RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY, BEAUTY SURGERY, MAKEOVER, BODY MODIFICATION