cosmetic surgery

English

Noun

cosmetic surgery (countable and uncountable, plural cosmetic surgeries)

1. Surgery (and related medical treatment) to improve appearance rather than for health reasons.

   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.

Synonyms

• aesthetic surgery

Translations

surgery to improve appearance

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (as a field of medicine) 美容外科學／美容外科学 (měiróng wàikēxué), (as a medical procedure) 整容手術／整容手术 (zhěngróng shǒushù)

• Finnish: kauneusleikkaus (fi), muovausleikkaus
• French: chirurgie cosmétique f, chirurgie esthétique (fr) f
• Hungarian: kozmetikai műtét
• Italian: chirurgia estetica f, chirurgia plastica (it) f
• Spanish: cirugía estética f
• Swedish: plastikkirurgi (sv) c, plastik (sv) c, skönhetsoperation (sv) c
• Thai: ศัลยกรรมเสริมสวย (th) (sǎn-lá-yá-gam-sə̌əm-sǔai)

See also

• plastic surgery