資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
{Plastic clay} (Geol.), one of the beds of the Eocene period;
-- so called because used in making pottery. --Lyell.
{Plastic element} (Physiol.), one that bears within the germs
of a higher form.
{Plastic exudation} (Med.), an exudation thrown out upon a
wounded surface and constituting the material of repair by
which the process of healing is effected.
{Plastic foods}. (Physiol.) See the second Note under {Food}.
{Plastic force}. (Physiol.) See under {Force}.
{Plastic operation}, an operation in plastic surgery.
{Plastic surgery}, that branch of surgery which is concerned
with the repair or restoration of lost, injured, or
deformed parts of the body.
資料來源 : WordNet®
plastic surgery
n : surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic reformation
of tissue [syn: {reconstructive surgery}, {anaplasty}]