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Rhytidectomy

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Noun
  1. 1
    Plastic surgery to reduce the visible signs of aging in the face by removing wrinkles.
  2. 2
    plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised wordnet

Etymology

From rhytid (“undesirable wrinkle in the skin”) + -ectomy (“excision”).

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