keratoplasty
Noun
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A surgical procedure in which part or all of a damaged or diseased cornea is replaced by healthy corneal tissue from a donor (synset 100682866)
is a type of:
- anaplasty, plastic surgery, reconstructive surgery - surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic reformation of tissue
- organ transplant, transplant, transplantation - an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient)
subtypes: epikeratophakia - using a piece of donated corneal tissue to repair the eye of someone who has had a cataract removedsame as: corneal graft, corneal transplant
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