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Why are plastic surgeons called plastic surgeons?
Published on August 28, 2012 by
When people think of the word plastic, they typically think of packaging, or bags, or other foreign or fake objects. However, the etymology of the word plastic doesn’t have anything to do with materials, but rather has its roots in the Greek work “plastike”. The word “plastike” defines the action of modeling or sculpting, a […]