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Definitions

Wiktionary

  1. n. surgery Plastic surgery of the penis, to repair injury, for enlargement or for sex change.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. reconstructive surgery on the penis to repair congenital abnormality or injury

Etymologies

  1. From phallus + -plasty (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Only a minority of trans-men get what they call “bottom” surgery, because phalloplasty is still more cosmetic than functional, and the procedure is risky.”

    A Boy's Life

  • “***Incidentally, I’m unsure why the word phalloplasty is bandied about as the transman’s ultimate goal in other posts around the blogsphere I see when people question the trans community.”

    Responding To The Feminist Anti-Transsexual Arguments

  • “Medical science has developed ways of creating a vagina out of male genitals (called vaginoplasty) and creating a penis and scrotum out of female genitals and skin grafts (called phalloplasty).”

    Simon & Schuster: OUR BODIES, OURSELVES

  • “A more likely alternative in the California case would be penile reconstruction - called a phalloplasty, said Dr. Robert Nam, a urologic oncologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.”

    Thestar.com - Home Page

  • “(This chapter may contain more than you want to know about "phalloplasty" and "metoidioplasty.")”

    Gays and Genes

  • “He eventually underwent phalloplasty, and he married a woman.”

    A Boy's Life

  • “Plus, it make gifts for the wedding party simple: breast implants for bridesmaids and phalloplasty for groomsmen.”

    The Huffington Post: Rosalyn Hoffman: Botox to the Brain

  • “Between 2003 and 2005, 594 patients underwent phalloplasty at multiple surgical centers.”

    GREAT Expectations « Gender Across Borders

  • “Because as doctors say, it's easier to dig a hole than build a pole so they can do one surgery where they can do a phalloplasty where they actually take a skin graft and construct a penis or they do a metortoplasty (ph) which a lot of guys get because they actually just release the clitoris and the pull that up and build a graft around that.”

    CNN Transcript Aug 10, 2007

  • “Nor had he had a metoidioplasty a procedure that enables the clitoris to be transformed into what appears to be a small penis, scrotoplasty, urethroplasty, or phalloplasty, which would have created external male genitalia.”

    Archive 2006-04-01

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