• RaoulDook
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    4 days ago

    Also they don’t actually use plastic in Plastic Surgery, as far as the stuff they install into bodily parts

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      Exactly. The word “plastic” in “plastic surgery” comes from the Latin word plasticus and it meant “something capable of being shaped or molded.” It has nothing to do with plastic as a substance. If anything, they share a root.