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CORNEAL GRAFT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A surgical procedure in which part or all of a damaged or diseased cornea is replaced by healthy corneal tissue from a donorplay

Synonyms:

corneal graft; corneal transplant; keratoplasty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("corneal graft" is a kind 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))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "corneal graft"):

epikeratophakia (using a piece of donated corneal tissue to repair the eye of someone who has had a cataract removed)

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