cosmetic surgery

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Noun

cosmetic surgery (countable and uncountable, plural cosmetic surgeries)

  2. Surgery (and related medical treatment) to improve appearance rather than for health reasons.
    Synonyms: aesthetic surgery, vanity surgery; work (informal, elliptical); plastic surgery (narrow sense)
    Hypernyms: plastic surgery (broad sense) < surgery
    Hyponyms: face lift, face job, nose job, lip job, eye job, boob job, butt job, Brazilian butt lift
    The face lift is a classic example of cosmetic surgery.
    • 2022 December 14, Nadia Khomami, quoting Iman, “‘He’s not my “late” husband’: Iman speaks of grief over death of David Bowie”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      I come from Africa – we celebrate getting older. A friend was telling me there’s been a rise in cosmetic surgery, all because [people][sic] have been looking at themselves in Zoom meetings.

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