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, →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 ].
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