rhinoplast
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[edit]rhinoplast (plural rhinoplasts)
- A surgeon who carries out rhinoplasty.
- 2015, Valeria Finucci, The Prince's Body: Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance Medicine:
- This prohibition was already present in Leviticus 21:18, where it is written that men with charum, that is, men with flat noses, cannot become priests in the temple. In canon law the loss of a nose could plausibly mean the termination of a marriage. Would a new nose reinstate one, the rhinoplast Otto Hildebrand mused a few centuries later?