blepharoplasty
noun
blepharoplasty is a noun meaning “Plastic surgery on the eyelids to improve vision or for cosmetic reasons” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-L-E-P-H-A-R-O-P-L-A-S-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of blepharoplasty is blepharoplasties.
What does blepharoplasty mean?
noun
- 1
Plastic surgery on the eyelids to improve vision or for cosmetic reasons.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of blepharoplasty
- blepharoplasties plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is blepharoplasty?
Blepharoplasty appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you abbreviate blepharoplasty?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of blepharoplasty: bleph.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Blepharoplasty in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense plastic surgery on the eyelid:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | blépharoplastie |
| German | Augenlidplastik, Lidplastik, Blepharoplastik |
| Portuguese | blefaroplastia |
| Spanish | blefaroplastia |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does blepharoplasty come from?
From blepharo- + -plasty.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).