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Etymology
Etymology tree English visco- Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes- Proto-Indo-European *-ōr Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰésōr Proto-Hellenic *kʰéhər Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír) Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *worǵós Proto-Hellenic *-worgós Ancient Greek -ουργός (-ourgós) Ancient Greek χειρουργός (kheirourgós) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek χειρουργῐκός (kheirourgĭkós)bor. Late Latin chīrurgicus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Medieval Latin cirurgicālisder. Middle French cirurgicalbor. Middle English cirurgicalder. English surgical English viscosurgical From visco- + surgical.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Describing any viscoelastic material used in eye surgery.
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.
1989, David Evered, The Biology of hyaluronan, page 266: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 ].
2016 January 14, “A Pilot Study to Propose a”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI: