eye operation
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- noun
- /aɪ ˌɑpəˈreɪʃən/
- Specialized
:
cirugía ocular
- She felt nervous before her eye operation, but was hopeful it would improve her vision.
Examples
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After months of blurry vision, I finally scheduled my eye operation to correct my sight.
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He was going to have an eye operation.
Fiction book (1992) -
To make himself more attractive to her, Adriano undergoes an eye operation.
Academic text (1996) -
Debbie successfully lands the plane, and the unrealistic book ends with Debbie ready for her next challenge, the eye operation.
Academic text (2000) -
Through the window of a flower shop, the tramp sees the former blind girl for whose successful eye operation he'd gotten the money that sent him to jail.
Fiction book (1995) -
And I couldn't stop talking about my eye operation... how I was gonna get it or not get it... and I kept deflecting, and she said, “Spalding... do not go to a hospital for an operation.
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The doctor explained that the eye operation would help treat my glaucoma effectively.
Synonyms
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A medical operation on the eye to fix sight problems
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A surgery that uses a laser to reshape the clear front part of the eye to improve sight without glasses
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An operation to remove the cloudy lens of the eye and replace it with an artificial lens to restore vision
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Surgery to fix or reshape the eyelids
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A surgery that replaces a damaged cornea in the eye with healthy tissue from a donor
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A cut at the corner of the eye to lower pressure after an injury
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A cut in the clear front part of the eye to improve vision
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A medical treatment that uses a strong laser to burn part of the retina to stop bleeding or attach it
A type of eye surgery that reshapes the cornea by creating a small flap to correct vision
A clear artificial lens placed in the eye to replace a cloudy natural lens after cataract surgery
An operation that replaces a damaged front part of the eye with healthy tissue from another person
An operation that replaces a damaged clear layer at the front of the eye with healthy donor tissue
A surgery that places clear tissue from another person on the front of the eye to help vision
An eye operation that removes part of the cornea to improve vision or treat disease
A cut made by surgery in the thin covering behind the eye lens to improve vision
An operation that removes part of the colored area of the eye to lower eye pressure
A small cut in the colored part of the eye to help fluid in the eye drain and lower pressure
An operation that removes the clear jelly inside the eye and replaces it with salt water
A surgery that makes a small opening in the eye to let fluid drain and lower eye pressure
Surgery using a laser to make tiny burns in the eye to help fluid drain and lower eye pressure
A cut in the white outer part of the eye to reach the inside
A surgery that cuts an eye muscle to correct misaligned eyes
A surgery that opens the eye socket to reach tissues inside
An operation to remove an eye
How Invasive
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a surgical procedure performed on the eye' is directly and compositionally derived from 'eye' (the organ) + 'operation' (a surgical procedure); it denotes an operation on the eye. This noun+noun compounding is a regular, cross-linguistically common pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily understand the phrase.
Etymology
Eye operation shows a simple picture: a surgeon working on an eye, because operation means 'surgery' to fix a problem. So it means 'a surgical procedure on the eye'.