資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Thoracoplasty \Tho`ra*co*plas"ty\, n. [Thorax + plasty.] (Med.)
   A remodeling or reshaping of the thorax; especially, the
   operation of removing the ribs, so as to obliterate the
   pleural cavity in cases of empyema.