Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Plastic surgery of the nose.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Plastic surgery of the nose.
Wiktionary
- n. surgery A type of plastic surgery that is used to improve the function (reconstructive surgery) or appearance (cosmetic surgery) of a person's nose.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Plastic surgery of the nose to correct deformity or to replace lost tissue. Tissue may be transplanted from the patient's cheek, forehead, arm, etc., or even from another person.
WordNet 3.0
- n. cosmetic surgery to improve the appearance of your nose
Etymologies
- rhino- + -plasty (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And by the way, has no one picked up on her rhinoplasty aka nose job, plumped up lips and Botox-ed forehead?”
“MARTIN: Well, the most common ones are eyelid surgery; rhinoplasty, which is your nose; breast augmentation, of course, for women; and then for men, they have breast reduction.”
“Recorrecting the shape of the nose also called rhinoplasty also has become a commonly perfomed operation.”
“Though there are brief flashbacks - mostly to Tamara's pre-rhinoplasty days - it's all fairly straightforward.”
The Huffington Post: Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Tamara Drewe
“Nose jobs: People look younger after cosmetic rhinoplasty, according to a study published in the Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery.”
The Wall Street Journal: Slapping On a Skin Patch to Combat Hay Fever
“Researchers in Toronto recruited 50 laypeople to guess the age of 53 rhinoplasty patients, ranging in age from 15 to 61, based on photographs taken before and after the operations.”
The Wall Street Journal: Slapping On a Skin Patch to Combat Hay Fever
“The researchers said they believed this is the first study to demonstrate a statistically significant decrease in apparent age after rhinoplasty.”
The Wall Street Journal: Slapping On a Skin Patch to Combat Hay Fever
“Dan Neil/The Wall Street Journal With the 2012 edition of the TL, Acura designers have performed another rhinoplasty, says Mr. Neil.”
“With the 2012 edition of the TL, Acura designers have performed another rhinoplasty.”
The Wall Street Journal: Acura TL: A Good Grille and a Better Car Behind It
“The second candidate, Denise, was slated for rhinoplasty, mini-brow lift, breast augmentation and chemical peel of her face.”
The Huffington Post: Robert Tornambe, M.D.: Confessions of an Extreme Makeover Plastic Surgeon
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘rhinoplasty’.
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The Nose Knows
Being Nosy.
nosethril, nostril, nebby, nasal, rhinoplasty, pug, button, Roman, turned-up, Pinocchio, Cyrano de Bergerac, Gonzo and 54 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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hedges's Words
wii, crepuscule, adumbrate, concatenation, sufi, qawwali, furry, riot, mellifluous, conspiracy, etymology, tea cozy and 369 more...
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theastic's Words
cellar, stalemate, wrought, opal, tyrant, squelch, squab, linen, tartan, paisley, scope, siren and 395 more...
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rhino-
of or relating to the nose
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Thunderfoot's Words
lugubrious, salacious, vituperative, foist, foment, embolism, stygian, mellifluous, bildungsroman, shirk, crone, elide and 173 more...
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-plasty, -plast, -plastic
molding, grafting, or formation
rhinoplasty, genioplasty, thoracoplasty, autoplasty, kineplasty
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The Body Project
Ways we modify our bodies.
snakebites, piercing, tattoo, botox, implant, liposuction, henna, circumcision, manicure, pedicure, scarification, trepanation and 7 more...
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freshasspearmint's Words
spaniard, fantastic, tremendous, pachyderm, colloquial, sartorius, brouhaha, bourgogne, mandalay, lonelily, fortuitous, rhinoplasty and 35 more...
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Ned's Words
haruspex, thaumaturg, ptarmigan, pomegranate, crepuscular, svengali, obloquy, eleemosynary, coruscate, trapezoidal, rhinoplasty, drab and 4 more...
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wyclif's Words
leitmotif, gravitas, blackguard, transubstantiation, comcomitance, consubstantiation, bailiwick, schadenfreude, masticate, supralapsarian, infralapsarian, mestizo and 3 more...
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OrbitalCombustion's Words
nepenthe, phrontistery, peregrination, pervicacious, sinistrality, phallogocentric, prolixity, leptokurtic, ineffable, haecceity, lucubration, vicissitudes and 1026 more...
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