vitreous

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While a common approach involves removing the vitreous body and substituting it with medical intraocular fillers like expandable gas or silicone oil, these fillers have been associated with various side effects.

From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2024

One approach is a surgery called a vitrectomy—not to be a confused with a vasectomy, though neither are a walk in the park—which involves scooping out the vitreous and replacing it with a saline solution.

From Slate • Nov. 28, 2018

So, this week I had surgery to place medicine implants in my eyes and had a vitrectomy to drain out the polluted vitreous fluid in my eyeball and replace it with a clear solution.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2018

Its cladding is not generic glass and steel, but includes strips of white vitreous enamel overlaid with big bronze coloured X-shaped struts that stiffen the structure.

From The Guardian • Dec. 6, 2015

That’s called vitreous fluid, I thought with clarity.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini