Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plastic \Plas"tic\ (pl[a^]s"t[i^]k), a. [L. plasticus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to form, mold: cf. F. plastique.]
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Having the power to give form or fashion to a mass of matter; as, the plastic hand of the Creator.
--Prior.See plastic Nature working to his end.
--Pope. Capable of being molded, formed, or modeled, as clay or plaster; -- used also figuratively; as, the plastic mind of a child.
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Pertaining or appropriate to, or characteristic of, molding or modeling; produced by, or appearing as if produced by, molding or modeling; -- said of sculpture and the kindred arts, in distinction from painting and the graphic arts.
Medallions . . . fraught with the plastic beauty and grace of the palmy days of Italian art.
--J. S. Harford.Plastic clay (Geol.), one of the beds of the Eocene period; -- so called because used in making pottery.
--Lyell.Plastic element (Physiol.), one that bears within the germs of a higher form.
Plastic exudation (Med.), an exudation thrown out upon a wounded surface and constituting the material of repair by which the process of healing is effected.
Plastic foods. (Physiol.) See the second Note under Food.
Plastic force. (Physiol.) See under Force.
Plastic operation, an operation in plastic surgery.
Plastic surgery, that branch of surgery which is concerned with the repair or restoration of lost, injured, or deformed parts of the body.
Wiktionary
n. 1 surgery, especially involving the transfer of tissue, to repair body parts. 2 cosmetic surgery for appearance.
WordNet
n. surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic reformation of tissue [syn: reconstructive surgery, anaplasty]
Wikipedia
Plastic surgery is a surgical specialty involving the restoration, reconstruction, or alteration of the human body. It includes cosmetic or aesthetic surgery, reconstructive surgery, craniofacial surgery, hand surgery, microsurgery, and the treatment of burns.
Plastic Surgery is an album by the Huntingtons released in 2000 on Tooth & Nail Records.
The Plastic Surgery (formerly Canadian Journal of Plastic Surgery) is a peer-reviewed medical journal dealing with plastic surgery. It is the official journal of several national Canadian societies: the Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons, the Canadian Society for Aesthetic (Cosmetic) Plastic Surgery, the Groupe pour l'Avancement de la Microchirurgie Canada, and the Canadian Society for Surgery of the Hand (Manus Canada). The journal covers both research and material dealing with continuing medical education and society guidelines.
Usage examples of "plastic surgery".
In truth, Rudy had barely squeaked through a residency in radiology and had never been trained in plastic surgery.
The German tank-track that had crushed my leg in the mud at Caen, the gas-shell that had scarred one whole side of my face -- Adonis would never have claimed it for his own, anyway -- beyond hope of plastic surgery and left me with a left eye that could just barely tell the difference between night and day, that made me a bird with a broken wing.
But he also did some plastic surgery, even cosmetic plastic surgery.
His head was wrapped with white gauze bandages, so he looked like Claude Rains in The Invisible Man or like Humphr ey Bogart in that movie about the escaped convict who has plastic surgery to foil the police and to start a new life with Lauren Bacall.
His head was wrapped with white gauze bandages, so he looked like Claude Rains in The Invisible Man or like Humphrey Bogart in that movie about the escaped convict who has plastic surgery to foil the police and to start a new life with Lauren Bacall.
He'd also had extensive plastic surgery performed on his face overseas.
Sometimes forensic pathology requires plastic surgery, and in the morgue, Scarpetta did what she could to repair Mrs.
He was recuperating well, but ruined tendons in that hand would prevent him from performing plastic surgery again.
Killian decided for plastic surgery as a concurrent activity and it had paid off well.
Drane and his practice is overrun with sexy young Latino, black, and Asian girls and sexy blonde detectives who offer to do various jobs for him in exchange for plastic surgery.
He talked up the plastic surgery on Coleman, a ploy to keep him safe from Dudley and fulfill his father’.