rhinoplasticn.adj.

1823 Encycl. Amer. XI. 18 Rhinoplastic... The art of restoring the nose, when lost by disease or external injury, was early practised.

1824 Lancet 3 July 21/2 This operation, which has recently been called the rhinoplastic, has been successfully performed by Professor Delpech.

1838 R. Liston Pract. Surg. viii. 172 Under the fostering zeal of Tagliacotius, rhinoplastic at length attained celebrity.

1842 W. Fergusson Pract. Surg. iv. vii. 455 Dieffenbach.., whose skill in rhinoplastics seems to be such that he will repair or rear up this most important feature with all the genius of a Telford.

1915 P. R. Turnure in A. B. Johnson et al. Operative Therapeusis III. iv. 169 Rhinoplastics may be partial or total.

1824 Lancet 24 July 124/2 We thought that in the present state of things we could..proceed to the rhinoplastic operation, and resume the mercurial treatment afterwards, to complete his cure.

1833 J. S. Bushnan tr. J. F. Dieffenbach (title) Surgical Observations on the Restoration of the Nose,..With the history and physiology of rhinoplastic operations.

1887 J. Morley Aphorisms 36 Truth that has been picked up from books only sticks to us like an artificial limb, or a false tooth, or a rhinoplastic nose.

1927 Warren (Pa.) Tribune 21 July 4/5 The rhinoplastic surgeon may have a hard task to produce an effective remedy, and if he is skilled he will use bone or cartilage taken from some other portion of the patient's body in making his repairs.

1970 S. Fomon & J. Bell Rhinoplasty p. xi Nevertheless, one sees too frequently the ‘rhinoplastic nose’ standing out on the face as an alien feature.

1977 Laryngoscope 87 1207 We believe that employment of the suggested measuring techniques will allow better reporting of rhinoplastic methods.

2008 Jrnl. Cranio-maxillofacial Surg. 36 Suppl. No. 1. S6/2 In patients who have undergone a rhinoplastic procedure, defects of the nasal dorsum may appear after several years.