Definitions

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  • noun Reconstructive or plastic surgery of the breast.

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  • noun surgery Plastic surgery of a breast to alter its shape or size.

Etymologies

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From mamma + -plasty

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Examples

  • Augmentation mammoplasty is something you shouldn't consider until at least 2 years after starting hormone treatment anyway, and to get that type of cleavage in someone that age, significant amounts of silicon augmentation would be needed.

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  • Augmentation mammoplasty is something you shouldn't consider until at least 2 years after starting hormone treatment anyway, and to get that type of cleavage in someone that age, significant amounts of silicon augmentation would be needed.

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  • So she and her doc thought that she ought to have a mammoplasty to ease her pain.

    CNN Transcript Jul 11, 2001 2001

  • Presented new Phase 3 EXPAREL data on subjects undergoing mammoplasty:

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  • Common cosmetic procedures consist of making the breasts larger or popularly called as augmentation mammoplasty and breast reduction or reduction mammoplasty.

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  • Breast reduction surgery (reduction mammoplasty) corrects all three by reducing the size of the gland, repositioning the nipple and reshaping the breast.

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  • Breast augmentation, breast enlargement or augmentation mammoplasty is a surgery done to enhance the size of a woman�s breasts.

    Medindia Health News 2009

  • Two months later, the Los Angeles County coroner's office determined she died of "coronary artery disease and multiple post operative factors due to or as a consequence of liposuction and mammoplasty," but stated that the final cause of death could not be determined.

    STREET KNOWLEDGE MEDIA 2009

  • Reduction mammoplasty usually is performed on an outpatient basis or with a one night hospital stay.

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  • You will undergo a procedure called augmentation mammoplasty or breast augmentation.

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