- face-lift (n.)
- also facelift, 1934, from face-lifting (1922); see face (n.) + lift (n.).
- rhytidectomy
- "Plastic surgery for the removal of lines or wrinkles from the skin, especially of the face; an instance of this, a facelift", 1930s; earliest use found in Richard John Ernst Scott (1863–1932). From ancient Greek ῥυτιδ-, ῥυτίς wrinkle + -ectomy.