A surgical procedure involving plastic surgery or reshaping of the jaw or chin.
From Greek geny- (jaw, chin) + -plasty (surgical formation/shaping), a common medical suffix. This surgical term emerged as plastic surgery developed techniques for modifying facial structure.
Genyoplasty shows how medical language created a word for a procedure that didn't exist before the 20th century—once surgeons could reshape jaws, they needed a scientific term to describe it!
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