rhinoplasty

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Etymology

From rhino- +‎ -plasty.

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Noun

rhinoplasty (countable and uncountable, plural rhinoplasties)

  1. (medicine, surgery, uncountable) A type of plastic surgery that is used to improve the function (reconstructive surgery) or appearance (cosmetic surgery) of a person's nose.
    • 2008 January, Orange Coast, page 190:
      Dr. Sundine specializes in facelifts, necklifts and browlifting, eyelid surgery, as well as rhinoplasty, which involves both technically exacting skill and a keen eye for aesthetic balance.
    • 2010 May 4, Madison Park, “Teen's daintier new nose carries bigger regret”, in CNN‎[1]:
      Those can be signs of emotional immaturity, said Casas, a plastic surgeon in Chicago, Illinois. About 10 percent of her teenage rhinoplasty patients are boys.
  2. (countable) An instance of such surgery; one operation (procedure).
    • 2020 August 12, Tatiana Boncompagni, “The New Nose: Is the Bump Back?”, in The New York Times‎[2], archived from the original on 12 August 2020:
      Gone is the era of the cookie-cutter, ski jump nose. Today’s cosmetic doctors are approaching rhinoplasties with a more artistic, individualized approach, using new surgical and nonsurgical techniques to refine rather than revamp one of the most prominent features of the face.

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