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plural rhinoplasts
- A surgeon who carries out rhinoplasty.
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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?
2015, Valeria Finucci, The Prince's Body: Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance Medicine
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rhinoplast. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rhinoplast
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