What Does the Word Chiroplasty Mean?

: plastic surgery of the hand.

What does the term Chiroplasty mean?

: plastic surgery of the hand.

How do you spell Chiroplasty?

Chiroplasty, or cheiroplasty, is a term which refers to plastic surgery of the hands. The term combines root word "chir", which means "hand", and the suffix "-plasty", which means "surgical repair".

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