extracapsular surgery

1. 1.

   cataract surgery in which only the front of the lens is removed; the back of the lens capsule remains intact and provides support for the lens implant

   Broadercataract surgery

   Narrowerphacoemulsification

Questions about extracapsular surgery

What does extracapsular surgery mean?

extracapsular surgery means "cataract surgery in which only the front of the lens is removed; the back of the lens capsule remains intact and provides support for the lens implant".

Is extracapsular surgery a common word?

extracapsular 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.