viscosurgical
English
Etymology
visco- + surgical
Adjective
viscosurgical (not comparable)
- (surgery) Describing any viscoelastic material used in eye surgery.
- 1989, David Evered, The Biology of hyaluronan, page 266:
- Viscosurgical tools are applied during the surgical procedure and can act as space-makers to separate tissues and create the space for surgical manipulations and for the insertion of implants.
- 2016 January 14, “A Pilot Study to Propose a”, in PLOS ONE, DOI: :
- The experienced surgeon did cataract surgery performing the divide and conquer nucleofractis technique and using discovisc (Alcon Laboratories, Inc, Fort Worth, Tex, US) as ophthalmic viscosurgical device [22 ].
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