| 单词 | to couch the eye or a person |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto couch the eye or a person a. Surgery. To remove (a cataract) by inserting a needle through the coats of the eye and displacing the opaque crystalline lens below the axis of vision. Also to couch the eye or a person. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > operations on specific parts or conditions > perform operation on specific part or condition [verb (transitive)] > operations on eye couch1601 enucleate1867 iridectomize1879 eviscerate1887 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 234 To be pricked with a needle for couching of a cataract. 1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xvii. xxii. 654 Sometimes..the Cataract is not couched whole, but is broken into many peces. 1710 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) VI. 620 Sir William Read..coucht one of the eyes of Sir Simon Harcourt with successe. 1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind vi. §3 The young man couched by Cheselden. 1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton II. xxi. 312 She has been couched, and can see as well as ever. 1872 J. Morley Voltaire v. 242 The surgeon who has couched his patient's cataract. < as lemmas |
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