epikeratophakia (English, noun)
expansion: epikeratophakia (uncountable)
Senses:
glosses: The surgical correction of aphakia. It is a refractive surgical procedure in which a donor cornea is transplanted to the anterior surface of the patient's cornea. A lamellar disc from a donor cornea is placed over the de-epithelialized host cornea and sutured into a prepared groove on the host cornea.
tags: uncountable
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