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FILTRATION SURGERY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does filtration surgery mean?
• FILTRATION SURGERY (noun)
The noun FILTRATION SURGERY has 1 sense:
1. eye surgery that opens a passage allowing excess aqueous humor to drain into surrounding tissues; a treatment for glaucoma
Familiarity information: FILTRATION SURGERY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Eye surgery that opens a passage allowing excess aqueous humor to drain into surrounding tissues; a treatment for glaucoma
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("filtration surgery" is a kind of...):
eye operation; eye surgery (any surgical procedure involving the eyes)
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