phalloplasty

IPA: fˈæɫʌpɫæsti

noun

  • (surgery) Plastic surgery to construct or repair a penis, performed to repair injury or as part of sex reassignment surgery.
  • (surgery, nonstandard) Plastic surgery to enlarge the penis.
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Examples of "phalloplasty" in Sentences

  • He eventually underwent phalloplasty, and he married a woman.
  • (This chapter may contain more than you want to know about "phalloplasty" and "metoidioplasty.")
  • Plus, it make gifts for the wedding party simple: breast implants for bridesmaids and phalloplasty for groomsmen.
  • Only a minority of trans-men get what they call “bottom” surgery, because phalloplasty is still more cosmetic than functional, and the procedure is risky.
  • ***Incidentally, I’m unsure why the word phalloplasty is bandied about as the transman’s ultimate goal in other posts around the blogsphere I see when people question the trans community.
  • Medical science has developed ways of creating a vagina out of male genitals (called vaginoplasty) and creating a penis and scrotum out of female genitals and skin grafts (called phalloplasty).
  • A more likely alternative in the California case would be penile reconstruction - called a phalloplasty, said Dr. Robert Nam, a urologic oncologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.

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