mammaplastyn.
/ˈmaməplasti/, U.S. /ˈmæməˌplæsti/ Surgery.
Plastic surgery of the breast, to alter its size, shape, or position; an instance of this.
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rhinoplastic1823
rhinoplasty1828
cheiloplasty1842
uranoplasty1844
staphyloplasty1846
uranoplastic1850
genyplasty1857
stomatoplasty1860
palatoplasty1873
posthioplasty1874
perineoplasty1875
vaginoplasty1877
myringoplasty1879
thoracoplasty1890
tracheloplasty1890
labioplasty1896
utriculoplasty1910
angioplasty1912
pyeloplasty1913
mammaplasty1938
valvuloplasty1948
tympanoplasty1955
tuboplasty1961
balloon angioplasty1980
blepharoplasty-
1938 Revue de Chirurgie Structive 8 39 (heading) Review of 80 cases of mammaplasty.
1961 Lancet 29 July 268/2 The skin..healed by first intention..after reduction mammaplasty.
1982 A. F. Wallace Progress Plastic Surg. xviii. 156 Augmentation mammaplasty had been attempted by R. Gersuny of Austria in about 1903, by the injection of paraffin wax into the retromammary space.
1995 Daily Tel. 17 Jan. 18/7 The controversy over silicone breast implants has obscured the enormous satisfaction reported by virtually all women following breast enlargement or ‘augmentation mammaplasty’.
1998 Jrnl. Clin. Endocrinol. & Metabolism 83 886 Breast tissue from reduction mammaplasties is the only tissue available in relative abundance.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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