(medicine) Surgery which alters a person's physical appearance, performed not for health reasons but in order to increase his or her beauty or physical appeal; cosmetic surgery.

Alternative form of aesthetic surgery

Any surgery using a laser to cut tissue instead of a scalpel. / The field thereof.

Synonym of telesurgery

(LGBT, surgery) Sex reassignment surgery performed on the reproductive organs, particularly the genitals.

Breast augmentation. / (bilateral) Mastectomy.

(surgery) An articular cartilage repair surgical technique that works by creating tiny fractures in the underlying bone.

A medical fraud in which a practitioner creates the illusion of performing surgery with his/her bare hands, using fake blood and other trickery.

A sequential chain of organ transplants where each recipient donates another organ to another person in exchange for the one that they have received.

(surgery) A surgical specialty that focuses on abdominal contents including the oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, liver, pancreas, gallbladder and bile ducts, and often the thyroid gland and certain diseases of the skin.