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- 10-0 nylon suture
- Accu-line surgical marking pen
- AcrySof acrylic foldable IOL
- akinesia
- AMO intraocular lens
- Anis corneal forceps
- Anis lens holding forceps
- Anis radial marker
- Anis suture placement marker
- anterior chamber
- anterior chamber cannula
- anterior chamber irrigator
- anterior chamber washout cannula
- aphakia
- aphakic
- Arrowsmith corneal marker
- Arruga-Nicetic capsule forceps
- ASSI® Accu-line surgical marking pen
- ASSI® air injection cannula
- ASSI® capsulorhexis forceps
- ASSI® fixation hook
- ASSI® Phaco Chopper™ - 90-degree angle
- ASSI® Polar-Mate™ coagulator
- ASSI® serrefine
- ASSI® triple marker
- Atkinson peribulbar needle
- Atkinson retrobulbar needle
- Backhaus towel clamp
- Baerveldt® glaucoma implant - See MT Desk glossary entry
- Baird chalazion forceps
- balanced salt solution (BSS)
- Barraquer cilia forceps
- Barraquer-Colibri forceps
- Barraquer corneoscleral scissors
- Barraquer eye speculum
- Barraquer iris scissors
- Barraquer needle holder
- Beaver blade
- Bechert forceps
- Bechert lens holding forceps
- Bergland-Warshawski phaco/cortex adapter kit (cortex removal through MVR puncture at 2-o'clock position)
- Berke ptosis forceps
- Berkeley optic zone marker
- Binkhorst irrigating cannula
- bipolar cautery
- Bishop-Harmon anterior chamber cannula
- Bishop-Harmon crisscross forceps
- Bishop-Harmon forceps
- black silk bridle suture
- Blaydes lens holding forceps
- blepharitis
- blepharoplasty
- Blumenthal push-pull irrigating cystotome
- Bonaccolto forceps
- Bonaccolto utility and splinter forceps
- Bonn forceps
- Bonn iris forceps
- Bonn micro iris hook
- Bonn suturing forceps
- Bores axis marker
- Bores optic zone marker
- Bores radial marker
- bridle suture
- BSS (balanced salt solution)
- BSS PLUS® ophthalmic irrigating solution (Alcon)
- Buedding squeegee cortex extractor and polisher (ASSI® catalog)
- canal of Schlemm
- capsule polisher
- capsulorrhexis or capsulorhexis
- capsulotome
- capsulotomy scissors
- carbachol
- Carbastat (carbachol)
- Castroviejo caliper
- Castroviejo Colibri forceps
- Castroviejo suturing forceps
- cataract
- Cauer chalazion forceps
- chalazion curette
- cilia
- ciliary body
- Clayman guide
- Clayman lens holding forceps
- coaptation bipolar forceps
- coaxial irrigation-aspiration cannula
- Colibri forceps
- conjunctival flap
- corneoscleral incision
- corneoscleral scissors
- Corydon expression cannula
- crack-and-flip technique
- crescent blade
- crescent knife
- crescent scleral tunneler
- cup forceps
- cystotome
- D. Aron-Rosa lens holding forceps
- Dardenne nucleus forceps
- DeCamp viscoelastic cannula
- Deitz incision depth gauge
- Desmarres chalazion forceps
- Desmarres lid retractor
- desiccation
- diathermy
- diopters
- Duovisc viscoelastic system (Alcon)
- Erhardt lid forceps
- Ellis astigmatism marker
- enucleated
- enucleation
- enucleation scissors
- extracapsular cataract extraction (ECCE)
- Eyemap corneal topography system (Alcon)
- Farkas-Bracken fixation forceps
- Faulkner lens holding forceps
- Flieringa scleral fixation ring
- foldable intraocular lens
- fornix-based conjunctival flap
- Fox shield
- Francis chalazion forceps
- Frazier dura hook
- fulguration
- fundi
- funduscopic
- funduscopy
- Gaskin forceps
- Gaskin fragment forceps
- Gass retinal detachment hook
- Gill-Colibri forceps
- Gill corneal knife
- Gill iris forceps
- Gill-Welsh cannula
- Girard corneoscleral forceps
- Glaser microvitreoretinal cannula
- Glaser MVR cannula
- Glaser vitreoretinal viscodissector (pre-retinal and vitreoretinal membranes dissection utilizing viscoelastic material)
- Goldman scleral fixation ring and blepharostat
- Gradle cilia forceps
- Graefe fixation forceps
- Grandon rotatable radial marker & degree gauge
- Grandon T-incision marker
- grasping forceps
- Green fixation forceps
- Grizzard subretinal fluid cannula
- groove incision
- haptics
- Harms-Colibri forceps
- Hartmann mosquito forceps
- Healon
- Healon aspirating cannula
- Henry cilia forceps
- Hoffer optic zone marker (for photorefractive keratectomy)
- Hofmann-Thornton globe fixation ring
- Hofmann T-incision marker
- Hunt chalazion forceps
- hydrodelineation
- hydrodissection
- hydrodissection cannula
- inferior nasal quadrant
- inferior rectus muscle
- inferior temporal quadrant
- infraorbital
- infraorbital foramen
- intraocular lens (IOL)
- IOL - intraocular lens
- IOLAB intraocular lens
- iridectomy
- iris bipolar forceps
- iris hook
- iris scissors
- iris microscissors
- irrigation and aspiration (I&A)
- irrigating-aspiration (I&A)
- irrigation-aspiration cannula
- irrigating C-hook extractor
- irrigating cortex extractor (cortical removal or hydrodissection)
- irrigating cystotome
- irrigating IOL positioner
- irrigating J-hook cannula
- Jacobson hemostatic forceps
- Jaeger lid plate
- Jaffe iris hook
- Jameson muscle forceps
- Jensen capsule polisher cannula
- jeweler's bipolar forceps
- Johnson hydrodelineation cannula
- Johnson hydrodissection cannula
- Kansas fragment lens forceps (for removal of nucleus)
- Kelman phacoemulsification (KPE) - brief description
- Kelman-McPherson forceps
- Kelman-McPherson lens holding forceps
- Kelman-McPherson suturing forceps
- keratectomy
- kerotome
- Knapp strabismus scissors
- Knolle anterior chamber irrigating cannula
- Knolle-Shepard lens holding forceps
- Knolle-Volker lens holding forceps
- Kraff fixation forceps
- Kraff lens holding forceps
- Kratz capsule polisher
- Kremer corneal fixation forceps
- Kuhnt fixation forceps
- lacrimal cannula
- lacrimal sac
- Lalonde hook forceps
- Lambert chalazion forceps
- Landers subretinal aspiration cannula
- LASIK
- lens
- lens nucleus
- Lester lens manipulator
- Lewicky lens manipulating hook
- lid speculum
- Lieberman lens holding forceps
- Lieberman micro-ring lens forceps (for implanting IOL)
- Lindstrom arcuate incision marker
- Lindstrom small incision marker
- Lordan chalazion forceps
- loupe magnification
- macular degeneration
- Masket capsulorhexis forceps
- Maumenee-Colibri corneal forceps
- McDonald lens folding forceps (implanting forceps)
- McDonald soft IOL folding forceps (implanting forceps)
- McIntyre anterior chamber cannula
- McPherson corneal forceps
- McPherson forceps
- McPherson suturing forceps
- McPherson tying forceps
- Mendez degree gauge
- Mendez-Freeman pediatric A.C. maintainer
- Mendez-Freeman silicone oil cannula
- Mendez-Goldbaum Tri-Port subtenon anesthesia cannula
- Mendez hexagon marker
- mercury bag
- meridian
- Meyerhoefer chalazion curette
- microforceps (removal of floating lens materials and posterior segment procedures)
- microloop curette polisher
- microscissors
- microsurgical knife
- microvitrector
- microvitreoretinal (MVR)
- Miochol
- Miostat intraocular solution
- mm Hg (millimeters of mercury)
- Morris flexible cannula
- MVR (microvitreoretinal)
- MVR blade
- Nadbath block
- Nordan-Ruiz trapezoidal marker (for use in surgical correction of astigmatism)
- nucleus hydrodelineator
- nucleus rotator
- O'Brien block
- optic disk
- optic nerve
- orbicularis
- orbicularis oculi
- orbicularis
- orbit
- orbital rim
- pars plana
- Paufique graft knife
- peribulbar needle
- Peyman silicone oil cannula
- phacoemulsification
- PhacoFlex II SI30NB foldable intraocular lens implant
- Pierse corneal forceps
- Pierse-Colibri corneal forceps
- posterior chamber
- Provisc
- ptosis
- Rainin air injection cannula
- rectus muscle
- red reflex
- retina
- retinal detachment
- retinal hemorrhage
- retinal tear
- retinoscope
- retinoscopy
- retrobulbar block
- retrobulbar needle
- SatinCrescent™ tunneler
- SatinShortcut™ (IOL incision knife)
- SatinSlit™ keratome
- Sato knife
- Sattler advancement forceps
- Saupe cilia forceps
- Schepens scleral depressor
- Schiotz tonometer
- scleral blade
- scleral buckle
- scleral groove
- scleral knife
- serrefine
- Seidel's scotoma
- Seidel's sign
- Seidel's test
- Shaaf cilia foreign body forceps
- Shearing cortex suction kit (removal of cortex at 12-o'clock position during phacoemulsification)
- Shepard intraocular lens holding forceps (serrated)
- Shepard lens holding forceps
- Shocket scleral depressor
- Simcoe capsule polisher
- Simcoe cortex extractor aspiration cannula
- Simcoe double-barreled irrigating-aspirating unit
- Simcoe irrigation-aspiration cannula
- Simcoe reverse double-barreled irrigating-aspirating unit
- Simcoe reverse irrigation-aspiration cannula
- Sinskey lens holding forceps
- Sinskey lens manipulating hook
- SITE irrigation-aspiration machine
- SITE machine
- slit blade
- slit-lamp
- slit-lamp examination
- slit knife
- spoon blade
- spoon knife
- spud & gouge (for removal of foreign bodies)
- squeegee capsule polisher (also IOL manipulator)
- stab incision
- stab-incision angled blade
- Stevens tenotomy hook
- Stevens tenotomy scissors
- subretinal aspiration cannula
- superior nasal quadrant
- superior rectus muscle
- superior temporal quadrant
- supraorbital
- supraorbital foramen
- Tennant tying forceps
- Tenon's capsule
- Tenon's space
- tenotomy scissors
- Thorpe corneal forceps
- Thorton double corneal ruler (for astigmatism surgery)
- Thorton globe fixation ring
- Thorton limbal incision ruler
- Thorton optic zone marker
- Thurmond pachymetry marker
- TobraDex ointment
- tonometer
- towel clamp
- traction suture
- Troutman alpha chymotrysin cannula
- Troutman blade holder
- Troutman-Castroviejo corneal section scissors
- Utrata capsulorhexis forceps
- Vander vitreoretinal injection cannula
- Van Lint block
- Vannas capsulotomy scissors
- Villasenor-Navarro fixation ring and degree gauge
- Viscoat
- viscodissector
- viscoelastic
- viscoelastic cannula
- Vitrax
- vitrectomy (removal of vitreous fluid from the eye while replacing it with saline or other fluid)
- vitrectomy instrumentation
- vitreoretinal micropick
- vitreoretinal viscodissector
- vitreous body
- Wagner epiretinal membrane dissector
- Wagner silicone oil cannula
- WaveScan™ Wavefront system - See MT Desk glossary entry
- Wecker iris scissors
- Welsh cortex extractor (with flat olive tip)
- Westcott tenotomy scissors
- Westcott utility scissors
- wet-field cautery
- Wilder dilator
- Wills spud & burr (for removal of foreign bodies from the eye)
- wire lid speculum
- Worst implantation forceps
- Wydase
- Zeiss operating microscope
- Zurich suturing forceps