chest surgery

plural chest surgeries

1. countableuncountablemedicineSynonym of top surgery.

   Kevin (who's had chest surgery, and may or may not choose to have genital surgery later on).

   1994 October 27, Kevin Wilson <70641.507@CompuServe.COM>, “tala's raves”, in alt.transgendered (Usenet), retrieved 25 Nov 2021

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   This reaction usually relates to alteration of the body through hormone therapy and chest surgery.

   2007, Walter Bockting, Eli Coleman, edited by Randi Ettner, Stan Monstrey, and A. Evan Eyler, Principles of Transgender Medicine and Surgery, →ISBN, page 199

   Unfortunately, there is a paucity of data guiding decision making for asymptomatic, average risk transgender men who have undergone chest surgery.

   2020, Tamar Reisman, edited by Marianne J. Legato, The Plasticity of Sex, →ISBN, page 202

   Synonyms: top surgery, upper surgery