cyclodestructive surgery

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   an eye operation that treats glaucoma by destroying the ciliary body with a laser

   Broadereye operation

Questions about cyclodestructive surgery

What does cyclodestructive surgery mean?

cyclodestructive surgery means "an eye operation that treats glaucoma by destroying the ciliary body with a laser".

Is cyclodestructive surgery a common word?

cyclodestructive 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.