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-plasty (plas′tē)

plastic surgery involving a (specified) part of the body, source of tissue, or purpose rhinoplasty, autoplasty, neoplasty

Etymology: Gr -plastia < plastos, formed < plassein, to form: see plastic

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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