eye surgery

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eye surgery - any surgical procedure involving the eyes eye operation surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process, surgery, operation - a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery" cataract surgery - eye surgery that involves removing all or part of the lens and replacing it with an intraocular lens implant cyclodestructive surgery - an eye operation that treats glaucoma by destroying the ciliary body with a laser filtration surgery - eye surgery that opens a passage allowing excess aqueous humor to drain into surrounding tissues; a treatment for glaucoma iridectomy - an eye operation that treats closed-angle glaucoma by surgical removal of part of the iris of the eye iridotomy - a surgical procedure that makes an incision in the iris of the eye in order to enlarge the pupil or to treat closed-angle glaucoma keratotomy - surgical incision into the cornea LASEK, laser-assisted subepithelial keratomileusis - a refractive surgery procedure that reshapes the cornea laser trabecular surgery - eye surgery that makes many tiny laser burns in an area that will increase the drainage of aqueous humor laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis, LASIK - a refractive surgery procedure that reshapes the cornea vitrectomy - a surgical procedure that removes the vitreous humor and replace it with saline solution