lensectomy

lensectomy
Removal of the lens of the eye by an infusion-aspiration cutter; often done by puncture incision through the pars plana in the course of vitrectomy. [lens + G. ektome, excision]

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n.
a surgical procedure in which the crystalline lens of the eye is removed.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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