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
For the autopsy, examiners ordered three toxicology tests on Craig — blood, urine and vitreous fluid of the eye.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2017
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
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