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eye surgery

eye surgery

8 3.9
A medical operation on the eye to fix sight problems
  • noun
  • /aɪ ˈsɜrdʒəri/
  • Specialized
translation icon : cirugía ocular
  • Jane underwent eye surgery to correct her vision and improve her quality of life.
  • laser eye surgery
  • LASIK eye surgery
  • perform eye surgery

What is LASIK and should I get LASIK eye surgery?

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Examples

  • Amniotic membranes have been successfully used in cases of eye surgery.

    Academic text (2007)
  • Some benefits of ICL eye surgery versus LASIK include the fact that ICL can correct higher amounts of myopia or near sightedness than LASIK can.

  • Finally, I can get my eye surgery.

  • Also, if you have eye surgery, you might look more beautiful.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • Most case patients had a history of previous eye surgery or procedures.

    Academic text (2014)
  • If my eyes were bad, I would definitely want laser eye surgery as well.

    Blog text (3)
  • I will see him again soon, on Monday morning at 6 a.m. when he is driven up for his laser eye surgery.

    Blog text (3)
  • Mindy went into eye surgery three or four days ago.

  • In those corners where people pay for their own services, like LASIK eye surgery, costs have been held down and service is good.

    Blog text (14)
  • In corrective laser eye surgery, surgeons rely on excimer lasers.

Synonyms

eye operation
vseye surgery
  • Specialized
1 3.4

A surgery on the eye to fix vision or treat eye problems

is broader and also treats surrounding tissues not only the organ itself

How Invasive

ophthalmectomy
  • Specialized
9.9
eye surgery
  • Specialized
8 3.9
eye care
  • Specialized
1 3.0

Surface Forms

eye surgery singular
eye surgeries plural

Morphology

eye + surgery

The meaning 'a surgical procedure performed on the eye' is directly and predictably derived from combining 'eye' (vision organ) + 'surgery' (medical operation). This noun-noun composition is literal and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.

Etymology

Eye surgery is a simple, literal name: eye shows the body part and surgery means an operation. It gives the image of a careful operation on the eye to 'fix' vision or treat eye problems, so the phrase means a surgical procedure on the eye.