Meaning | A surgical procedure in which part or all of a damaged or diseased cornea is replaced by healthy corneal tissue from a donor. |
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Synonyms | keratoplasty, corneal transplant |
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Narrower | epikeratophakia | Using a piece of donated corneal tissue to repair the eye of someone who has had a cataract removed |
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Broader | plastic surgery, reconstructive surgery, anaplasty | surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic reformation of tissue |
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transplant, transplantation, organ transplant | An operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient) |
Spanish | queratoplastia |
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Catalan | queratoplàstia |
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