Any surgical procedure that changes a person's sex characteristics so that they conform to a standard, particularly those decided by transgender people for themselves or for intersex people to present in a dyadic fashion, the latter often done without consent.

(optics) A procedure to correct the vision by reshaping the cornea using a laser.

(informal, medicine) An ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction.

Synonym of sex reassignment surgery

(surgery) A surgical operation on the heart while a machine keeps the blood flowing.

(surgery) An operation to remove irreversibly damaged mucosa of the maxillary sinus when maxillary sinusitis is not cured by medication or other non-invasive technique.

Synonym of sex reassignment surgery

plural of cosmetic surgery

plural of plastic surgery

plural of aesthetic surgery