plastic surgery
medical specialty concerned with the altering or restoration of form and function
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Summary
plastic surgery is a medical specialty[1]. It ranks in the top 0.56% of medical specialty entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,407 views/month, #1 of 177).[2]
Key Facts
- Subclass of: surgery[3], body modification[4]
- Commons category: Plastic surgery[5]
- Topic's main category: Category:Plastic surgery[6]
- OpenStreetMap tag: healthcare:speciality=plastic_surgery[7]
- Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[8], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10]
- Exact match: https://schema.org/PlasticSurgery[11]
- Practiced by: plastic surgeon[12]
- Social media followers: 153,031[13]
- P14692: Zygophyllales[14]
Why It Matters
plastic surgery has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 83 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]