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Word: microgenia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a woman with a great beak of a nose (macrorrhinia) and no more chin than a rabbit (microgenia), pays a plastic surgeon to beautify her, the obvious procedure would be for the surgeon to graft upon the chin what he removes from the nose. However, the logic of such an operation seems to have occurred to only one plastic surgeon in all the last decade's welter of face-cutting. Dr. Gustave Aufricht of Manhattan, who has transferred 21 big noses to 21 little chins, last week laid claim to this originality in the American Journal of Surgery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Big Nose; Little Chin | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

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