rhytidectomy
Nov. 11th, 2009 07:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prettygoodwordrhytidectomy - n., (medical) a face-lift.
That is, plastic surgery to remove wrinkles from the face, also known as rhytidoplasty. Yeah, kinda boring but I had to do it sometime, and if you want to know how it's done, I leave the details to your own curiosity. Pronounced rit-i-DEK-teh-mee, coined in the early 1930s from Greek root rhytís, wrinkle + -ectomy, itself from Greek ek-, out + -tomiā, cut.
---L.
That is, plastic surgery to remove wrinkles from the face, also known as rhytidoplasty. Yeah, kinda boring but I had to do it sometime, and if you want to know how it's done, I leave the details to your own curiosity. Pronounced rit-i-DEK-teh-mee, coined in the early 1930s from Greek root rhytís, wrinkle + -ectomy, itself from Greek ek-, out + -tomiā, cut.
---L.
