detached retina in English
noun
1
a retina that has become separated from the underlying choroid tissue at the back of the eye, causing loss of vision in the affected area.
He was exempted from military service because of a detached retina , and later in his career, when binocular microscopes became the norm, people puzzled why he was happy to still use a monocular one.
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1. Scleral Buckling is a type of eye surgery to correct a detached retina and restore vision
2. In December 1964, he was operated on by Michael E. DeBakey in Houston for an aneurysm of the abdominal aorta, and in February 1965 a detached retina in his left eye was treated by Sir Stewart Duke-Elder.