cataract extraction

cataract extraction
surgical removal of a cataract from the eye. In extracapsular cataract extraction the cataract alone is removed, leaving the lens capsule behind to support the remaining lens tissue. Intracapsular cataract extraction is the removal of the whole lens, including the capsule that surrounds it.

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the surgical removal of a cataractous lens.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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