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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Excision of a strip of the conjunctiva, usually encircling the cornea, for the cure of pannus.
- noun Same as
circumcision .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
surgical removal of astrip of theconjunctiva of aneye .
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