CORNEAL TRANSPLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does corneal transplant mean? 

• CORNEAL TRANSPLANT (noun)
  The noun CORNEAL TRANSPLANT has 1 sense:

1. a surgical procedure in which part or all of a damaged or diseased cornea is replaced by healthy corneal tissue from a donor

  Familiarity information: CORNEAL TRANSPLANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORNEAL TRANSPLANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A surgical procedure in which part or all of a damaged or diseased cornea is replaced by healthy corneal tissue from a donor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

corneal graft; corneal transplant; keratoplasty

Hypernyms ("corneal transplant" is a kind of...):

anaplasty; plastic surgery; reconstructive surgery (surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic reformation of tissue)

organ transplant; transplant; transplantation (an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "corneal transplant"):

epikeratophakia (using a piece of donated corneal tissue to repair the eye of someone who has had a cataract removed)

 Context examples 

Further, cadaveric corneal transplants from undiagnosed CJD patients have led to two probable and three possible cases of disease transmission.

(Eyes of CJD patients show evidence of prions, National Institutes of Health)

The finding suggests that the eye may be a source for early CJD diagnosis and raises questions about the safety of routine eye exams and corneal transplants.

(Eyes of CJD patients show evidence of prions, National Institutes of Health)