enucleation

The outbreak has also been connected to eight recent reports of vision loss and four reports of enucleation, or surgical removal of an eyeball.

Ritchie: On the day we made Dolly, I would have done the enucleation, and she would have done the fusion.

That journey began 15 years ago in Japan, where enucleation may be refused because of social, cultural, and religious factors.

The enucleation of the eyeball should not be undertaken by anyone unacquainted with the anatomical structures involved in such an operation.

But it may become suddenly worse, or go on to complete blindness with pain, demanding enucleation, after some temporary perturbation, as the performance of a glaucoma operation.