viscosurgical

English

Etymology

visco- +‎ surgical

Adjective

viscosurgical (not comparable)

1. (surgery) Describing any viscoelastic material used in eye surgery.
   • 1989, David Evered, The Biology of hyaluronan, page 266:

     Viscosurgical tools are applied during the surgical procedure and can act as space-makers to separate tissues and create the space for surgical manipulations and for the insertion of implants.

   • 2016 January 14, “A Pilot Study to Propose a”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     The experienced surgeon did cataract surgery performing the divide and conquer nucleofractis technique and using discovisc (Alcon Laboratories, Inc, Fort Worth, Tex, US) as ophthalmic viscosurgical device [22 ].