keratotomy

IPA: kɛrʌtˈɔtʌmi

Examples of "keratotomy" in Sentences

One concern is whether the long-term effect of radial keratotomy might be loss of vision.
An illustration is radial keratotomy, a surgical procedure for correcting certain eyesight problems.
The same might be said for the microwave oven, the hair dryer, laser keratotomy, REITs, the Xbox and the ATM machine.
PRK, performed in the physician's office with local anesthesia, is a far more sophisticated procedure than a controversial form of surgery called radial keratotomy (RK).
Lots of people had already undergone an older, less-reliable treatment called RK (radial keratotomy), but my doctor was anxious to get the word out about the new technique.
Surgeons thought they had perfected radial keratotomy, surgery performed to enable better vision without glasses, on rabbits, but the procedure blinded the first human patients.
I got unprecedented access to the headquarters of the infamous Soviet intelligence agency, the KGB, and in Leningrad I had an exclusive interview with Dr. Svyatoslav Fyodorov, the ophthalmologist who developed the revolutionary vision correction procedure known as radial keratotomy.