Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

   {Plastic clay} (Geol.), one of the beds of the Eocene period;
      -- so called because used in making pottery. --Lyell.

   {Plastic element} (Physiol.), one that bears within the germs
      of a higher form.

   {Plastic exudation} (Med.), an exudation thrown out upon a
      wounded surface and constituting the material of repair by
      which the process of healing is effected.

   {Plastic foods}. (Physiol.) See the second Note under {Food}.
      

   {Plastic force}. (Physiol.) See under {Force}.

   {Plastic operation}, an operation in plastic surgery.

   {Plastic surgery}, that branch of surgery which is concerned
      with the repair or restoration of lost, injured, or
      deformed parts of the body.

Source : WordNet®

plastic surgery
     n : surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic reformation
         of tissue [syn: {reconstructive surgery}, {anaplasty}]