Definition of "plastic surgery" []

• Surgery to remodel, repair, or restore body parts, especially by the transfer of tissue. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The German tank-track that had crushed my leg in the mud at Caen, the gas-shell that had scarred one whole side of my face — Adonis would never have claimed it for his own, anyway — beyond hope of plastic surgery and left me with a left eye that could just barely tell the difference between night and day, that made me a bird with a broken wing."
• "Taped to the window of the clinic was a half-page newspaper advertisement extolling the virtues of plastic surgery at the Institute of Cosmetic Surgery."
• "Hard evidence: Coleman Masskie Loftis was plastic surgery altered to look more like his father."