filtration surgery

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   eye surgery that opens a passage allowing excess aqueous humor to drain into surrounding tissues; a treatment for glaucoma

   Broadereye operation

Questions about filtration surgery

What does filtration surgery mean?

filtration surgery means "eye surgery that opens a passage allowing excess aqueous humor to drain into surrounding tissues; a treatment for glaucoma".

Is filtration surgery a common word?

filtration 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.