RHINOPLASTY

n. Ri2n'o-pla2st-i". Lat., rhinoplastic a, rhinoplastic us (from pis, the nose, and irAaoxreiv, to mold). Fr., rhi.noplastie. Ger., Rhinoplastik. The plastic surgery of the nose. [E.] English r. An operation devised "by Syme, consisting in taking flaps from the cheek. fE.l German r. A modification of the Tagliacotian r. made by von Graefe, which consists in performing the whole operation at a single sitting. [E.] Heteroplastic r. R. performed with ti ues removed from another person than the one operated upon, [a, 34.] Indian r. R. in which the flap is taken from the forehead; so called from its having originated in India. [E.] Italian r. See Tagliacotian r. L,arigenbeck's r. A modification of the Indian method, consisting in including the periosteum in the frontal flap. |E.] Osteoplastic r. R. in which there is transplantation of a cartilaginous flap to replace the saeptum nas i. [L, 88 (a, 31).] Periosteal r. Of Oilier, r. by means of a flap containing periosteum removed from the frontal bone. [L, 83 (a, 34).] Post's r. A modification of the Tagliacotian r. consisting in taking the flap from the patient's finger. [E.] Syme's r. See English r. Tagliacotian r. The r. of Tagliacozzi, in which the flap is taken from the skin of the arm. [E.] Of. German r. Von Graefe's r. See German r. "Wood's r. R. by means of an inverted flap taken from the upper lip and elongated by separating the mucous from the cutaneous surface, from the root of the 'flap to, not through, its free border, and covering this with lateral flaps derived from the cheeks. [A, 277 (a, 34).] O, no; O", not: O3, whole: Th, thin; Th", the; V, like oo in [s. 403]