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Definition of Mastopexy
1. Noun. Plastic surgery to lift or reshape the breasts.
Definition of Mastopexy
1. Noun. (surgery) Any operation designed to lift or reshape a woman's breast. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mastopexy
1. [n -PEXIES]
Medical Definition of Mastopexy
1. Plastic surgery to affix sagging breasts in a more elevated and normal position, often with some improvement in shape. Origin: masto-+ G. Pexis, fixation (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mastopexy
Literary usage of Mastopexy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Breast: its anomalies, its diseases, and their treatment by John Blair Deaver, Joseph McFarland (1917)
"There are no complications or sequelae peculiar to the condition and there is no
after- treatment to follow recovery. mastopexy Various ..."
2. Manual of operative surgery by John Fairbairn Binnie (1921)
"... horse-shoe kidney, 660 Marwedel nephrotomy, 649 Mastoid antrum infections, 34
Mastoiditis acute, 41 mastopexy, ..."
3. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1909)
"mastopexy is an operation designed for the relief of pendulous breasts, and is
especially indicated when the latter are associated with a severe eczema. ..."
4. Practitioner's medical dictionary by George Milbry Gould (1910)
"Pertaining to the mastoid process and the parietal bone.
mastopexy (mas'-to-prks-t) [matto-; a fixing in]. Surgical fixation of a ] l>r, ..."
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