“keratotomy”

We have one entry that includes the term keratotomy.

radial keratotomy

noun

: a surgical operation on the cornea for the correction of myopia that involves flattening it by making a series of incisions in a radial pattern resembling the spokes of a wheel compare photorefractive keratectomy


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