rhinoplast

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rhinoplast (plural rhinoplasts)

  1. A surgeon who carries out rhinoplasty.
    • 2015, Valeria Finucci, The Prince's Body: Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance Medicine:
      This prohibition was already present in Leviticus 21:18, where it is written that men with charum, that is, men with flat noses, cannot become priests in the temple. In canon law the loss of a nose could plausibly mean the termination of a marriage. Would a new nose reinstate one, the rhinoplast Otto Hildebrand mused a few centuries later?

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