CATARACT SURGERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cataract surgery mean? 

• CATARACT SURGERY (noun)
  The noun CATARACT SURGERY has 1 sense:

1. eye surgery that involves removing all or part of the lens and replacing it with an intraocular lens implant

  Familiarity information: CATARACT SURGERY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CATARACT SURGERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eye surgery that involves removing all or part of the lens and replacing it with an intraocular lens implant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("cataract surgery" is a kind of...):

eye operation; eye surgery (any surgical procedure involving the eyes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cataract surgery"):

intracapsular surgery (cataract surgery in which the entire lens is removed)

extracapsular surgery (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)

 Context examples 

By age 80, more than half of all Americans either have a cataract or have had cataract surgery.

(Cataract, NIH: National Eye Institute)