alloplasticadj.

1884 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 14 Aug. 159/1 Dr. Charles H. Williams reported an alloplastic operation.

1909 Monthly Cycl. & Med. Bull. 2 309/1 Alloplastic substitution of the dura. Dr. Hanel reports the results of the employment of animal membranes as a substitute for the dura.

1953 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 85 400/1 With an adequate source of autogenous bone it is not necessary to use an alloplastic transplant.

2003 V. L. Blum Flesh Wounds vii. 260 Her face progressed through the stages of what was a combination of subperiosteal face-lift and alloplastic implants to alter her facial shape.

1924 J. Riviere tr. S. Freud Coll. Papers II. xxiv. 280 This expedient normal attitude leads naturally to some active achievement in the outer world and is not content..with establishing the alteration within itself; it is no longer auto-plastic but allo-plastic [Ger. alloplastisch].

1927 S. Ferenczi Further Contrib. Theory & Technique Psycho-Anal. xii. 164 Catalepsy and mimicry..would be regressions to a much earlier primitive method of adaptation of the organism..while flight and defence aim at an alteration in the environment (allo-plastic adaptation).

1954 W. La Barre Human Animal v. 90 Man's evolution..is through alloplastic experiments with objects outside his own body and is concerned only with the products of his hands, brains, and eyes—and not with his body itself.

1986 G. K. Wolfe Crit. Terms Sci. Fiction & Fantasy 5 Technological societies use ‘alloplastic’ means, manipulating the environment to make it more hospitable.

2006 M. H. Stone Personality-disordered Patients ii. 54 Paranoid persons..try to change the environment to better suit their own needs; this strategy is alloplastic adaptation and is accompanied by an externalizing cognitive style.