Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A surgical cosmetic procedure in which the facial skin is abraded with fine sandpaper or wire brushes in order to diminish the appearance of wrinkles, discoloration, scars, and other blemishes.

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  • noun A cosmetic medical procedure in which the surface of the epidermis of the skin is removed by abrasion, typically to remove scarring or sun-damaged skin.

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  • noun removal of scars or tattoos by anesthetizing the skin surface and then sanding or scraping off some of the outer skin layer

Etymologies

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derm- +‎ abrasion

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Examples

  • These therapies are safer than the deepest chemical peel and a huge improvement over an invasive procedure called dermabrasion, which involves sanding the skin's surface.

    Can Your Skin Be Saved? 2008

  • A technique called dermabrasion involves removing the surface layer of the skin using a rapidly rotating brush.

    Emaxhealth 2009

  • Although laser is the most popular form of tattoo removal, there are other methods such as dermabrasion and surgical excision.

    Tattoo Removal Basics 2008

  • As a result, injuries to the printed texts, such as dermabrasion, laser surgery, tattoo cover work or the loss of body parts, will not be considered to alter the work.

    Boing Boing: October 19, 2003 - October 25, 2003 Archives 2003

  • Others had been treated more harshly—electrolysis, exfoliation, poisonous injections, dermabrasion.

    Elder Hostel Katherine Gleason 2012

  • Aesthetics is spa-speak for cosmetic treatments from botox to noninvasive face lifts, dermabrasion and lipolysis (a new, less invasive form of liposuction).

    Asia's Top Spas Nellie S. Huang 2010

  • Quinn had the old version of an improved face, pulled tight so the skin was very, very thin, while the new face was on display in the tent, with the young people, who, before the downturn laid down cash for fillers, botox and dermabrasion.

    Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011

  • Quinn had the old version of an improved face, pulled tight so the skin was very, very thin, while the new face was on display in the tent, with the young people, who, before the downturn laid down cash for fillers, botox and dermabrasion.

    Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011

  • "I was staggeringly uncool and required deep pore cleansing and dermabrasion."

    Review of "The Hilliker Curse," a memoir by James Ellroy Post 2010

  • If the skin looks great after dermabrasion or plastic surgery but the whites and pupils of the eye look more timeworn, that may make age seem more indefinite, but not unambiguously younger.

    Shock of Gray Ted C. Fishman 2010

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