goniopuncture /go·nio·punc·ture/ (go″ne-o-punk´cher) insertion of a knife blade through the clear cornea, just within the limbus, across the anterior chamber of the eye and through the opposite corneoscleral wall, in treatment of glaucoma.
go·ni·o·punc·ture (g  n - -p ngk chr)n. An operation for congenital glaucoma in which a puncture is made in the filtration angle. |
goniopuncture
insertion of a knife blade through the clear cornea, just within the limbus, across the anterior chamber of the eye and through the opposite corneoscleral wall, in treatment of glaucoma.
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