Meanings
- not comparablemedicineDescribing any viscoelastic material used in eye surgery.
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.
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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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Origin
- Englishvisco-
- Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰes-
- Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰésōr
- Proto-Hellenic*kʰéhər
- Ancient Greekχείρ (kheír)
- Proto-Indo-European*werǵ-
- Proto-Indo-European*worǵós
- Proto-Hellenic*worgós
- Ancient Greekχειρουργός (kheirourgós)
- Ancient Greekχειρουργῐκός (kheirourgĭkós)
- Late Latinchīrurgicus
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Medieval Latincirurgicālis
- Middle Frenchcirurgica
- Middle Englishcirurgical
- Englishsurgical
- Englishviscosurgical
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