labiaplasty

English

Etymology

From labia +‎ -plasty.

Pronunciation

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Noun

labiaplasty (plural labiaplasties)

1. (surgery) The moulding or shaping of the labia minora and/or labia majora.
   • 2019, Suzannah Weiss, The Establishment, The Insidious Reasons Doctors Are Botching Labiaplasties‎^[1]:

     Many doctors performing labiaplasties were never taught vulvar anatomy—leaving some patients scarred and unable to feel sexual pleasure.

   • 2019, Lynn Enright, Vagina: A Re-Education‎^[2], Atlantic Books, →ISBN:

     Labiaplasty—surgery for reshaping or resizing the inner labia—is the fastest growing type of plastic surgery in the world: in 2016, 45 per cent more labiaplasty procedures were carried out than in 2015, […]

   • 2022 October 17, Rachel E. Gross, “Half the World Has a Clitoris. Why Don’t Doctors Study It?”, in The New York Times‎^[3]:

     When performed poorly, a labiaplasty — a procedure to reduce the size of the labia minora, and one of the fastest-growing cosmetic surgeries worldwide — can also damage nerves, leading to genital pain and loss of sexual sensation.

Hypernyms

• bottom surgery

Translations

moulding of the labia

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 陰唇整型手術 / 阴唇整型手术 (yīnchún zhěngxíng shǒushù), 陰唇縮小手術 / 阴唇缩小手术 (yīnchún suōxiǎo shǒushù)

• Finnish: labioplastia
• French: labioplastie f
• German: Labioplastik f, Labioplastie f
• Turkish: labioplasti