Surg. [a. F. uranoplastie: see URANO-1 b and -PLASTY.] Plastic surgery of the hard palate.
1846. Brittan, trans. Malgaigne’s Man. Oper. Surg., 370. Uranoplasty…. The ligatures being placed as in Staphyloplasty,… the operator detaches … the layer of soft parts.
1862. N. Syd. Soc. Year-Bk. Med., 248. Uranoplasty by detachment of the Mucous-peritoneal Covering of the Palate.
1872. Cohen, Dis. Throat, 200. [An] operation of uranoplasty for cleft of the hard palate.
