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optical iridectomy (medicine)


optical iridectomy
<procedure> Iridectomy performed for the purpose of improving vision by making an artificial pupil.

Peripheral iridectomy, in narrow-angle glaucoma, the surgical removal of a minute portion of the iris at its root; in intracapsular extraction of cataract, removal of one or more minute sections near the peripheral border, leaving the pupillary margin intact.

Synonym: buttonhole iridectomy, stenopeic iridectomy.

Sector iridectomy, an iridectomy in which a portion of the pupillary margin is excised.