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  • noun surgery The removal of the lens capsule during cataract surgery

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  • "With the company's new femtosecond laser system, we will be giving cataract physicians the tools they've long needed to master the critical yet difficult steps of capsulorhexis creation and nucleus fragmentation during cataract surgery.

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