The phrase "abdominal plastic" is not correct in English; it seems to be a truncation of "abdominoplasty," which is the proper term.
You can use the correct term when discussing surgical procedures related to the abdomen, specifically cosmetic surgery to remove excess skin and fat.
Example: "After losing a significant amount of weight, she decided to undergo abdominoplasty to achieve a flatter stomach."
Alternatives: "tummy tuck" or "abdominal surgery."
To make Episkin, donor keratinocyte cells, collected after breast and abdominal plastic surgery, are cultured in tiny wells of collagen gel, immersed in water, amino acids and sugars, and then air-dried for 10 days or aged to mimic mature skin by exposure to ultraviolet light.
If a patient needs surgery -- be it abdominal, plastic or brain -- Frochtzwajg does it himself or assists a specialist in the operating room.
Skin specimens were obtained from patients undergoing corrective breast or abdominal plastic surgery.
To examine the effects of solar radiation on gene expression in vivo, we carried out a photobiological study in five healthy volunteers referred for abdominal plastic surgery.
Participants with an average age of 42 years (range, 38 60 years) had all been referred for abdominal plastic surgery to the plastic-surgery department of South Hospital, Rennes, France.
We thus recruited twenty female volunteers aged between 38 and 60, with phototype II or III skin type, who had been referred for abdominal plastic surgery (Hôpital Sud, Rennes, France).
The patient was transferred to a medical centre specialized in abdominal and plastic surgery.
Human abdominal skin from plastic surgery procedures was obtained from several dermatological offices following informed consent and ethics board approval.
A permanent shunt was also implanted, doctors said, to drain fluids into her abdominal cavity via a plastic tube.
And the six minutes between there and Wembley Central gives you plenty of time to be completely sewn up before the terminal at Harrow & Wealdstone — a very unpleasant place to be with a gaping abdominal wound and a plastic bucket full of smelly viscera.
After temporal closure of the abdominal wall with a plastic sheet, further intensive care should be done in the ICU, and delayed definitive repair of intra-abdominal injuries should be performed.
