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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A surgical procedure in which a tumour, or diseased retinal tissue, is destroyed by using a laser. countable, uncountable
2. 2
   surgical procedure that uses an intense laser beam to destroy diseased retinal tissue or to make a scar that will hold the retina in cases of detached retina wordnet

Etymology

From photo- + coagulation.

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