Paying and playing with plastic. The meaning of plastics, plasticity, and plastic surgery.
Plastics are not only the proverbial everyday commodity, but they also permeate almost every aspect of medical devices, from technology to clinical application. This article addresses some of the confusing features of plasticity as they relate to the materials called plastics, to the phenomena of material plasticity, and to the clinical and biological usage of the word.
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Clinical Engineering Department, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, UK.
D001672:Biocompatible Materials; D004548:Elasticity; D004864:Equipment and Supplies; D006801:Humans; D010969:Plastics / Q000627:therapeutic use; D013518:Surgery, Plastic / Q000639:trends