| reconstructive surgery | The surgical specialty or procedure concerned with the restoration, construction, reconstruction, or improvement in the shape and appearance of body structures that are missing, defective, damaged, or misshapen. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| plastic surgery | The surgical specialty or procedure concerned with the restoration, construction, reconstruction, or improvement in the shape and appearance of body structures that are missing, defective, damaged, or misshapen. (05 Mar 2000) |
| surgery, plastic | The branch of surgery concerned with restoration, reconstruction, or improvement of defective, damaged, or missing structures. (12 Dec 1998) |
| reconstructive mammaplasty | The making of a simulated breast by plastic surgery, to replace the appearance of one that has been removed. (05 Mar 2000) |
| reconstructive psychotherapy | A form of therapy, such as psychoanalysis, that seeks not only to alleviate symptoms but also to produce alterations in maladaptive character structure and to expedite new adaptive potentials; this aim is achieved by bringing into consciousness an awareness of and insight into conflicts, fears, inhibitions, and their manifestations. (05 Mar 2000) |
| reconstructive surgical procedures | Procedures used to reconstruct, restore, or improve defective, damaged, or missing structures. (12 Dec 1998) |
| regressive-reconstructive approach | A form of psychotherapy in which regression, in order to resurrect some original psychic trauma, is an integral part of the treatment. (05 Mar 2000) |
| meningeal branch of ophthalmic nerve | <anatomy, nerve> See: tentorial nerve. (05 Mar 2000) |
| superior ophthalmic vein | <anatomy, vein> Begins anteriorly from the nasofrontal vein, passes along the upper part of the medial wall of the orbit, passes through the superior orbital fissure, to empty into the cavernous sinus. Synonym: vena ophthalmica superior. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inferior ophthalmic vein | <anatomy, vein> Arises from the inferior palpebral and lacrimal veins and divides into two terminal branches, one of which runs to the pterygoid plexus while the other joins the superior ophthalmic vein or empties into the cavernous sinus. Synonym: vena ophthalmica inferior. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ophthalmic | <anatomy> Pertaining to the eye. (18 Nov 1997) |
| ophthalmic acid | A tripeptide occurring in lens, similar to glutathione but differing in the replacement of cysteine by alpha-amino-n-butyric acid (i.e., in the replacement of -SH by -CH3); a potent inhibitor of glyoxalase. Compare: norophthalmic acid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ophthalmic artery | <anatomy, artery> Artery originating from the internal carotid artery and distributing to the eye, orbit and adjacent facial structures. (12 Dec 1998) |
| ophthalmic assistants | Persons academically trained to care for patients with eye diseases or structural defects of the eye, under the supervision of an ophthalmologist. (12 Dec 1998) |
| ophthalmic hyperthyroidism | Same as Basedow's disease. Origin: So called after Dr. Graves, of Dublin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |