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noun
Plastic surgery that removes a section of buccal fat-pad tissue from each side of the face.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences, surgery
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Synonyms: buccal fat extraction, buccal fat removal
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Bichat's fat pad + -ectomy.
Across languages
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
