PHOTOCOAGULATION


Meaning of PHOTOCOAGULATION in English

— photocoagulative /foh'toh koh ag"yeuh lay'tiv, -leuh tiv/ , adj.

/foh'toh koh ag'yeuh lay"sheuhn/ , n.

a surgical technique using an intense beam of light from a laser or a xenon-arc bulb to seal blood vessels or coagulate tissue, used primarily in ophthalmology to repair detached retinas or to treat certain kinds of retinopathy.

[ 1960-65; PHOTO- + COAGULATION ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .