viscosurgical
adjEtymology From visco- + surgical.
- 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: