cheiloplastyn.
/ˈkʌɪləʊplasti/ Surgery.
Treatment of the lip by a plastic operation.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > fixation and repair operations > [noun] > repair > of specific parts
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-
1842 T. D. Mütter Recent Improvem. Surg. 33 Cheiloplasty when the lips [are made].
1898 B. T. Tilton tr. H. Tillmanns Text-bk. Surg. II. iv. 230 By cheiloplasty is understood the remedying of defects upon the lips by plastic operation.
1958 Plastic & Reconstructive Surg. XXI. 453 The increased width of the upper lip is reduced by triangular excisions and the procedure is typical of the ‘Bernard Cheiloplasty’..or the ‘Bernard-Burow operation’.
Derivatives
ˈcheiloplastic adj.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > fixation and repair operations > [adjective] > repair operations on specific parts
rhinoplastic1824
labioplastic1840
blepharoplastic1841
posthioplastic1842
staphyloplastic1842
stomatoplastic1842
cheiloplastic1847
osteoplastic1862
uranoplastic1865
staphylorrhaphic1875
angioplastic1913
mammaplastic1947
tympanoplastic1955
1847 V. Mott in A. A. L. M. Velpeau New Elem. Operative Surg. I. 816 M. Serra has never, in all his cheiloplastic operations, found it necessary to have recourse to the incisions of Celsus.
1853 R. Druitt Surgeon's Vade Mecum (ed. 6) 413 Cheilo-plastic Operations, by which are signified operations for the restoration of the lip.
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