cataract surgery

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   eye surgery that involves removing all or part of the lens and replacing it with an intraocular lens implant

   Broadereye operation

   Narrowerintracapsular surgeryextracapsular surgery

Questions about cataract surgery

What does cataract surgery mean?

cataract surgery means "eye surgery that involves removing all or part of the lens and replacing it with an intraocular lens implant".

Is cataract surgery a common word?

cataract surgery is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.