Medical Term:
keratoplasty
Pronunciation: ker′ă-tō-plas′tē
Definition: Any surgical modification of the cornea; the removal of a portion of the cornea containing an opacity and the insertion in its place of a piece of cornea of the same size and shape removed from elsewhere.
Synonym(s): corneal graft, corneal transplantation, corneal trepanation, trepanation of cornea, transplantation of cornea
[kerato- + G. plassō, to form]
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Examples: glitazone, GI cocktail, etc.
