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autoplasty vs plastic surgery

plastic surgery vs autoplasty

autoplasty and plastic surgery both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
autoplasty Yes No No No
plastic surgery Yes No No No
As nouns, plastic surgery is a hypernym of autoplasty; that is, plastic surgery is a word with a broader meaning than autoplasty:
  • autoplasty: surgical repair by using tissue from another part of the patient's own body
  • plastic surgery: surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic reformation of tissue
Other hypernyms of autoplasty include anaplasty, reconstructive surgery.
autoplasty (noun) plastic surgery (noun)
surgical repair by using tissue from another part of the patient's own body surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic reformation of tissue
tissue that is taken from one site and grafted to another site on the same person
Difference between autoplasty and plastic surgery

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