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radial keratotomy

a surgical operation for correcting nearsightedness in which a series of minute, shallow incisions in a radial pattern are made in the cornea

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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