Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun photocoagulation

1 sense of photocoagulation

Sense 1
photocoagulation -- (surgical procedure that uses an intense laser beam to destroy diseased retinal tissue or to make a scar that will hold the retina in cases of detached retina)
       => operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process -- (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery")