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  2. Excess skin - Wikipedia

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    Excess skin is an effect of surplus skin and fat after expansion during pregnancy or adipositas and following a massive and considerable weight loss. Further reasons can be aging effects, genetic disorders or an intentional expansion for skin reconstruction. Due to the elastic nature of the skin, there is generally some improvement over time.

  3. Hemicorporectomy - Wikipedia

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    Hemicorporectomy is a radical surgery in which the body below the waist is amputated, transecting the lumbar spine. This removes the legs, the genitalia (internal and external), urinary system, pelvic bones, anus, and rectum.

  4. List of -ectomies - Wikipedia

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    Hemicorporectomy is the surgical amputation of the entire body below the waist, including the legs, genitalia, urinary system, pelvic bones, anus, and rectum. Hemilaminectomy is the surgical trimming or partial removal of the lamina portion of a spinal vertebra. Hemipelvectomy is the surgical removal of half of the pelvis and one of the legs ...

  5. Fascia - Wikipedia

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    It consists mainly of loose areolar and fatty adipose connective tissue and is the layer that primarily determines the shape of a body. [ medical citation needed ] In addition to its subcutaneous presence, superficial fascia surrounds organs , glands and neurovascular bundles , and fills otherwise empty space at many other locations.

  6. How to Tighten Your Loose Skin After Weight Loss - AOL

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    Dropping a lot of weight can leave you with loose skin. Doctors explore the most successful ways to tighten it. How to Tighten Your Loose Skin After Weight Loss

  7. Rhytidectomy - Wikipedia

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    An elderly Polish female aristocrat asked him to: "lift her cheeks and corners of the mouth". After much debate, he finally proceeded to excise an elliptical piece of skin around the ears. The first textbook about facial cosmetic surgery (1907) was written by Charles Miller (Chicago) entitled The Correction of Featural Imperfections. [5]

  8. He started walking and lost 360 pounds. But loose skin ... - AOL

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    Cole Prochaska lost 360 pounds by walking, eating a high-protein diet and lifting weights. But he feels trapped by his loose skin after his weight loss.

  9. Wrinkle - Wikipedia

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    A wrinkle, also known as a rhytid, is a fold, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface, such as on skin or fabric. Skin wrinkles typically appear as a result of ageing processes such as glycation, [1] habitual sleeping positions, [2] loss of body mass, sun damage, [3] or temporarily, as the result of prolonged immersion in water.