Surgical reconstruction or reshaping of the lips; cosmetic or reconstructive surgery performed on the lips.
Greek kheilos (lip) + plassein (to form or shape); '-plasty' is a common medical suffix meaning surgical correction or formation.
The -plasty suffix is everywhere in medical terminology—rhinoplasty (nose), arthroplasty (joint)—showing how doctors use these Greek building blocks to create new terms for procedures that didn't exist when Greek was spoken.
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