A variant or alternative form of genyoplasty; surgical reshaping of the jaw or chin.
An alternative spelling of genyoplasty, dropping the 'o' in the combination of Greek geny- (jaw) + plasty (shaping). Variant spellings in medical terminology often emerge as practitioners develop shorthand.
Genyplasty is a variant that never quite caught on, losing to genyoplasty—it shows how even scientific terms go through a kind of selection process where some forms survive and others disappear.
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